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The Odd Women

CHAPTER XVI
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Life will be a burden to me before long if I don't have more freedom.' 'Freedom ?' 'Yes, I don't think there's any harm in saying that.' 'Freedom ?' He glared at her.

'I shall begin to think that you wish you had never married me.' 'I should only wish that if I were made to feel that you shut me up in a house and couldn't trust me to go where I chose.

Suppose the thought took you that you would go and walk about the City some afternoon, and you wished to go alone, just to be more at ease, should I have a right to forbid you, or grumble at you?
And yet you are very dissatisfied if I wish to go anywhere alone.' 'But here's the old confusion.

I am a man; you are a woman.' 'I can't see that that makes any difference.

A woman ought to go about just as freely as a man.


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