I'd be much the same if I'd never taken any interest
in all these wonderful modern movements."
"It's those chums of yours--Aileen, Sibyl, Janet. I never did wholly
approve of them."
"Neither did mother and Maria, but it never made any difference."
"Do you mean to say that you intend to ignore me...disobey me?"
"Oh, Morty, I never promised to obey you. You know the fun we all had at
the rehearsal. You haven't noticed, these three years, that I've had my
way, in pretty nearly everything, merely because it happened to be your way
too. We've been living in a sort of pleasure garden, just playing about,
with mother as the good old fairy. But everything has changed. We must
look out for ourselves now, and I cannot put the whole burden on your
shoulders--"
"I do not mind in the least. That is where it belongs."
Alexina shook her wise little head. "Oh, no. It isn't done any more. No
woman who has learned to think is so unjust as to throw the whole burden
of life on her husband's shoulders. You have your own daily battle in the
business world. I will do the rest."
"What damned emancipated talk."
"What a funny old-fashioned word. We don't even say advanced or new any
more."
"It's nonsense anyhow. You're nothing but a child."
"You may just bet your life I'm not a child. Nor have I awakened all of a
sudden. In one sense I have. But not in this particular branch of modern
science.
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