Tell me something about them.' Barfoot was led on to a broad expression of his views.
'I admire your old-fashioned sentiment, Micklethwaite.

It sits well on you, and you're a fine fellow.

But I have much more sympathy with the new idea that women should think Of marriage only as men do--I mean, not to grow up in the thought that they must marry or be blighted creatures.

My own views are rather extreme, perhaps; strictly, I don't believe in marriage at all.

And I haven't anything like the respect for women, as women, that you have.