Why seek to change it? Our man is kind. What have they
to do with us: the women beaten, driven, overtasked--the women
without hope or joy, the livers of grey lives that men may laugh
and spend--the women degraded lower than the beasts to pander to
the beast in man--the women outraged and abandoned, bearing to the
grave the burden of man's lust? Let them go their way. They are
but our sisters of sorrow. And we who could help them--we to whom
God has given the weapons: the brain, and the courage--we make
answer: "I have married a husband, and I cannot come."
[A silence.]
GEOFFREY Well, you have heard. [He makes a gesture.] What is
your answer?
ANNYS [She comes to him.] Don't you love me enough to humour me a
little--to put up with my vexing ways? I so want to help, to feel
I am doing just a little, to make the world kinder. I know you can
do it better, but I want so to be "in it." [She laughs.] Let us
forget all this. Wake up to-morrow morning with fresh hearts. You
will be Member for East Poplar.
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