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" "Why should a girl be more considerate than anyone else?
More than any man, for instance ?" inquired Mrs.Fyne with a still greater assertion of responsibility in her bearing.
Of course I exclaimed at this, not very loudly it is true, but forcibly.
Were then the feelings of friends, relations and even of strangers to be disregarded?
I asked Mrs.Fyne if she did not think it was a sort of duty to show elementary consideration not only for the natural feelings but even for the prejudices of one's fellow-creatures.
Her answer knocked me over.
"Not for a woman." Just like that.

I confess that I went down flat.

And while in that collapsed state I learned the true nature of Mrs.Fyne's feminist doctrine.