She said we were all, she hoped, progressive women." "Well, Jane, my dear, this is interesting.

What next ?" "Mrs.Israel Akers said she had been told that 'very few of the old-fashioned women were left in Hatton, that even the women in the mills were progressing and getting nearer and nearer to the modern ideal'; and she added in a plaintive voice, 'I'm a good bit past seventy, and I hope some old-fashioned women will live as long as I do, that we may be company for each other.' Mrs.Clough told her, 'she would soon learn to love the new woman,' and she said plain out, 'Nay not I! I can't understand her, and I doan't know what she means.' Then Mrs.
Brierly spoke of the 'old woman' as a downtrodden 'creature' not to be put in comparison with the splendid 'new woman' who was beginning to arrive.

I'm sure, John, it puzzles me." "I can only say, Jane, that the 'old woman' has filled her position for millenniums with honor and affection, almost with adoration.

I would not like to say what will be the result of her taking to men's ways and men's work." "You know, John, you cannot judge one kind of woman from the other kind.
They are so entirely different.

Women have been kept so ignorant.