For that very reason, I'm inclined to doubt that you'll ever do anything even when you have the vote." He looked at her reflectively.

She appeared very smooth and sensitive and young.

"It'll take at least six generations before you're sufficiently thick-skinned to go into law courts and business offices.

Consider what a bully the ordinary man is," he continued, "the ordinary hard-working, rather ambitious solicitor or man of business with a family to bring up and a certain position to maintain.

And then, of course, the daughters have to give way to the sons; the sons have to be educated; they have to bully and shove for their wives and families, and so it all comes over again.