17/21 She would have made a captain of the foretop in the old days." "She is a very remarkable woman." "A very cranky one." "A very sensible one in some things," remarked Mrs.Hay Denver. "You mark my words, Walker, if we don't look out that woman will raise a mutiny with her preaching. Here's my wife disaffected already, and your girls will be no better. We must combine, man, or there's an end of all discipline." "No doubt she is a little excessive in her views." said the Doctor, "but in the main I think as she does." "Bravo, Doctor!" cried the lady. The professions are not sufficiently open to women. |