And yet Mrs.
Lloyd smiled as she answered, in a way meant to be pleasant, "They are very good in their place." "The trouble," remarked Mrs.Talbot, in reply, "is to make them keep their place." "At our feet." Mrs.Emerson laughed as she said this.
"No," answered Mrs.Lloyd--"at our sides, as equals." "And beyond that," said Mrs.Talbot, "we want them to give us as much freedom in the world as they take for themselves.

They come in and go out when they please, and submit to no questioning on our part.

Very well; I don't object; only I claim the same right for myself.

'I will ask my husband.' Don't you hear this said every day?
Pah! I'm always tempted to cut the acquaintance of a woman when I hear these words from her lips.

Does a man, when a friend asks him to do anything or go anywhere, say, 'I'll ask my wife ?' Not he.