17/31 The truth is, my sympathies are strongly with you in much of what you said the other day about women and marriage. We regard the matter from different points of view, but our ends are the same.' Rhoda moved her eyebrows, and asked calmly,-- 'Are you serious ?' 'Perfectly. You are absorbed in your present work, that of strengthening women's minds and character; for the final issue of this you can't care much. But to me that is the practical interest. In my mind, you are working for the happiness of men.' 'Indeed ?' escaped Rhoda's lips, which had curled in irony. |