P'raps I'm getting old-fashioned already--You used to call me 'the Girondist.' But if the New Woman _is_ to go on the loose and be unmoral like the rabbits, won't the cause suffer from middle-class opposition ?" _Vivie_: "Perhaps.

But it may gain instead the sympathies of the lower and the upper classes.

Why do you bother about Beryl?
I agree with you in disliking all this sexuality..." _Norie_: "Does one _ever_ quite know why one likes people?
There is _something_ about Beryl that gets over me; and she _is_ a worker.
You know how she grappled with that Norfolk estate business ?" _Vivie_: "Well, it's fortunate she and I have not met since Newnham days.

You must tip her the story that I am going away for a time--abroad--and that a young--young, because I look a mere boy, dressed up in men's clothes--a young cousin of mine, learned in the law, is going to drop in occasionally and do some of the work..." _Norie_: "I'm afraid I'm rather weak-willed.

I _ought_ to stop this prank before it has gone too far, just as I ought to discourage Beryl's babies.