Again, the man is not always the lord of the house.

He is as often, if not more frequently, its slave.

Then there are the conventions of life.

In place of a fine sense of courtesy prevailing between man and woman, which would recognise with the woman's finer sensibility a fine self-reliance, and with the man's greater strength a fine gentleness, we have a false code of manners, by which the woman is to be taken about, petted and treated generally as the useless being she often is; while the man becomes an effeminate creature that but cumbers the earth.

Fine courtesy and fine comradeship go together.