She flushed slightly, and hesitated.
“They—they want us to bribe them when we want work—success.”
“I know. It is the blackguard’s game. But women can change that. The best men want to change it. But I ask you, are there no female cads who demand of men what some men demand of women?”
“You mean——”
“It is not all on one side. How are many male careers made? Isn’t there favouritism there too? I know men who would never be where they are, but for the fact that they were sexually favoured by certain women. I could quote you some pretty extraordinary cases, high up, near the summit. Besides, a sex war is the maddest sort of war that could be imagined.”
She felt driven to bay.
“But can we help fighting sometimes?”
“There is a difference between quarrelling and fighting.”
“Oh, come!”
“There is, when you come to think about it. I want neither. Does quarrelling ever help us?”