The dictates of humanity and common-sense alike show that the latter and most important contract should no more be perpetual than any of the others." Again:-- "Any covenant between human beings that fails to produce or promote human happiness, cannot in the nature of things be of any force or authority; it is not only a right but a duty to abolish it." And a little further:-- "Womanhood is the great fact of woman's life.

Wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations." Daphne put down the book.

In the dim light, the tension of her slender figure, her frowning brow, her locked arms and hands, made of her a threatening Fate hovering darkly above the man in his deep, defenceless sleep.
She was miserable, consumed with jealous anger.

But the temptation of a new licence--a lawless law--was in her veins.

Have women been trampled on, insulted, enslaved ?--in America, at least, they may now stand on their feet.