9/59 She is by no means a model character. ROSALIND had been disappointed in man after man as individuals, but she had great faith in man as a sex. They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself--incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty. She once told a roomful of her mother's friends that the only excuse for women was the necessity for a disturbing element among men. |