"Equal rights, the ballot, and all that." "Oh! Don't!" she protested.

"You won't understand me; you can't.

I am no woman's rights' creature; and I stand, not for the new woman, but for the new womanhood.

Because I am sincere; because I desire to be natural, and honest, and true; and because I am consistent with myself, you choose to misunderstand it all and to lay wrong strictures upon me.
I do try to be consistent, and I think I fairly succeed; but you can see neither rhyme nor reason in my consistency.

Perhaps it is because you are unused to consistent, natural women; because, more likely, you are only familiar with the hot-house breeds,--pretty, helpless, well-rounded, stall-fatted little things, blissfully innocent and criminally ignorant.