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If you would be so kind, sir.
GEOFFREY Umph! I suppose you know what you're doing; appealing
through your womanhood to man's weakness--employing "backstairs
influence" to gain your private ends, indifferent to the higher
issues of the public weal? All the things that are going to cease
when woman has the vote.
MRS. CHINN You see, sir, he's the youngest.
[Gradually the decent but dingy figure of MRS. CHINN has taken to
itself new shape. To GEOFFREY, it almost seems as though there
were growing out of the shadows over against him the figure of
great Artemis herself--Artemis of the Thousand Breasts. He had
returned home angry, bitter against all women. As she unfolds her
simple tale understanding comes to him. So long as there are "Mrs.
Chinns" in the world, Woman claims homage.]
GEOFFREY How many were there?
MRS. CHINN Ten altogether, six living.
GEOFFREY Been a bit of a struggle for you, hasn't it?
MRS. CHINN It has been a bit difficult, at times; especially after
their poor father died.
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