3/12 But now--even if you retired from business, you'd spend most of your time on the links. We poor women wouldn't be much better off." "It does seem an abnormal state of affairs; I've barely given it a thought, it has always been such a pleasure to find you, after a hard day's work, looking invariably dainty, and pretty, and eloquently suggestive of leisure and repose. But--to the student of history--I suppose it is a condition that cannot last. There must be some sort of upheaval due. Well, I hope it will give me more of your society." They smiled at each other across the little table in perfect confidence. |