But why should I be uncivil ?" Mrs.Wade answered in a low voice, strangely gentle.
"Don't I know their silliness and worthlessness?
What woman has more reason to be ashamed of her sex ?" "Let us--hope!" "For the millennium--yes." Her eyes gleamed, and she went on in a more accustomed tone.

"Women are the great reactionary force.

In political and social matters their native baseness shows itself on a large scale.
They worship the vulgar, the pretentious, the false.

Here they will most of them pester their husbands to vote for Welwyn-Baker just because they hate change with the hatred of weak fear.

Those of them who know anything at all about the Irish question are dead set against Ireland--simply because they are unimaginative and ungenerous; they can't sympathize with what seems a hopeless cause, and Ireland to them only suggests the dirty Irish of Polterham back streets.