"When I see how the world has changed in my lifetime," she went on, "I can set no limit to what may happen in the next fifty years.

Ah, no, Mr.Pepper, I don't agree with you in the least," she laughed, interrupting his gloomy remark about things going steadily from bad to worse.

"I know I ought to feel that, but I don't, I'm afraid.
They're going to be much better people than we were.

Surely everything goes to prove that.

All round me I see women, young women, women with household cares of every sort, going out and doing things that we should not have thought it possible to do." Mr.Pepper thought her sentimental and irrational like all old women, but her manner of treating him as if he were a cross old baby baffled him and charmed him, and he could only reply to her with a curious grimace which was more a smile than a frown.
"And they remain women," Mrs.Thornbury added.