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 we had to be punished when we were little. Oh, Clara, I de hope your heart won't fail you.”

"I would do anything to save him, dear.”

“That's it. You must steel yourself by that thought.”

“But what is your plan?”

“Oh, I am so proud of it. We will tire him for ever of the widow, and of all emancipated women. Let me see, what are Mrs. Westmacott’s main ideas? You have listened to her more than I. Women should attend less to household duties. That is one, is if note”

“Yes, if they feel they have capabilities for higher things. Then she thinks that every woman who has leisure should take up the study of some branch of science, and that, as far as possible, every woman should qualify herself for some trade or profession, choosing for preference those which have been hitherto monopolized by men. To enter the others would only be to intensify the present competition.”

“Quite so. That is glorious!" Her blue eyes were dancing with mischief, and she clapped her hands in her delight “What else? She thinks that whatever a man can do a woman should be allowed to do also—does she not?”

“She says so.”

“And about dress? The short skirt, and