He was inclined, always, to try and set them in the right way; to help them to some of the mental training which men got in a hundred ways, and women, as it seemed to him, were often so deplorably without.

But this schoolmaster function only attracted him when there was opposition.

He had been quite sincere in denouncing humility in women.

It never failed to warn him off.
'Do you think she really wants to interfere ?' he asked, smiling.

'I expect it's only that she's got a bit of an organizing gift--like the women who have been doing such fine things in the war.' 'There's no chance for me to do fine things in the war,' said Pamela bitterly.
'Take up the land, and see! Suppose you and Miss Bremerton could pull the estate together!' Pamela's eyes scoffed.
'Father would never let me.