I propose to get a light, supple, dandyish cane, and to give Mrs.Thomas Barfoot half a dozen smart cuts across the back in her own drawing-room, some afternoon when people were present.

What have you to say to it ?' He spoke with such show of angry seriousness that Rhoda paused before replying.
'I sympathized with you,' she said at length, 'but I don't think I would go to that extremity.' Everard repeated the argument he had used to his cousin.
'You are quite right,' Rhoda assented.

'I think many women deserve to be beaten, and ought to be beaten.

But public Opinion would be so much against _you_.' 'What do I care?
So is public opinion against you.' 'Very well.

Do as you like.