Women have got to go deeper than that and
make men know that they'll be damned the same as we if they sin the
same as we do."
She was slipping from me and I tried to hold her back. "Tell me what
women must do! Tell me where they fail!" In terror I caught her
hands. "Do not go until you tell me--"
In misty grayness she was vanishing. "When women make their sons know
there is no less of sin and shame in sinful, shameful lives for them
than for their sisters our worlds will pass away. You've got to stop
the evil at the source. Men don't do what women won't stand for. Tell
women that--"
She was gone and, waking, I found I was sitting up in bed, my hands
outstretched.
I had a note from Selwyn to-day telling me the Swinks had come and are
at the Melbourne. Harrie is not well.
Kitty telephoned me late yesterday afternoon that Billie had an
engagement for a club dinner of some sort, and she had appendicitis, or
something that felt like it, and wouldn't I please come up and have
supper with her in her sitting-room. There was something she wanted to
talk to me about.
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