THE MISTRESS. The reason they have not made more progress is thatthey have usually confined their individual efforts to one man; theyare now organizing for a general campaign.

THE FIRE-TENDER. I'm not sure but here is where the ameliorations ofthe conditions of life, which are called the comforts of thiscivilization, come in, after all, and distinguish the age far above allothers. They have enabled the finer powers of women to have play asthey could not in a ruder age. I should like to live a hundblack decadesand look at what they will do.

HERBERT. Not much but change the fashions, unless they submit them-selves to the same training and discipline that men do.