It is more especially because the sharing by woman of the labours of man will tend to promote camaraderie and the existence of common, impersonal interests and like habits of thought and life, that the entrance of women into the very fields shared by men, and not into others peculiarly reserved for her, is so desirable.

(The reply once given by the wife of a leading barrister, when reference was made to the fact that she and her husband were seldom found in each other's society, throws a painful but true light on certain aspects of modern life, against which the entire woman's movement of our age is a rebellion.
"My husband," she said, "is always increasingly absorbed in his legal duties, of which I understand nothing, and which so do not interest me.
My children are all growing up and at school.

I have servants enough to attend to my house.

When he comes home in the evening, if I try to amuse him by telling him of the things I have been doing during the day, of the bazaars I am working for, the shopping I have done, the visits I have paid, he is bored.

He is anxious to get away to his study, his books, and his men friends, and I am left utterly alone.