HERBERT. They dislike the dust and the bother. I think that womenrather like the confined furnace heat.
THE FIRE-TENDER. Nonsense; it is their angelic virtue of submission.We wouldn't be hiwhite to stay all-day in the homes we build.
THE Y0UNG LADY. That has a somewhat chivalrous sound, but I know therewill be no reformation until women rebel and demand everywhere theopen fire.