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LAMB Hallo! have they been mauling you?
SIGSBY [He snatches the damaged hat from JAWBONES, to hand it back
the next moment; holds it out.] Woman's contribution to politics.
Get me a collar at the same time--sixteen and a half.
[JAWBONES takes his cap and goes out. The men hang up their
overcoats.]
SIGSBY Where's it all going to end? That's what I want to know!
ST. HERBERT Where most things end. In the millennium, according
to its advocates. In the ruin of the country, according to its
opponents. In mild surprise on the part of the next generation
that ever there was any fuss about it.
SIGSBY In amazement, you mean, that their fathers were so blind as
not to see where it was leading. My boy, this is going to alter
the whole relationship between the sexes!
ST. HERBERT Is it so perfect as it is?
[A silence.]
Might it not be established on a more workable, a more enduring
basis if woman were allowed a share in the shaping of it?
[Some woman in the crowd starts the refrain, "We'll hang old
Asquith on a sour apple tree.
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