Why Minturn told
me--but I can't repeat that. Anyway, he made me eager to try my ideas on a
lad who would be company for me, when I can't be here and don't wish to be
with other men."
"Are you still going to those Brotherhood meetings?"
"I am. And I always shall be. Nothing in life gives me such big returns
for the time invested. There is a world of talk breaking loose about the
present 'unrest' among women; I happen to know that the 'unrest' is as
deep with men. For each woman I personally know, bitten by 'unrest,' I
know two men in the same condition. As long as men and women are forced to
combine, to uphold society, it is my idea that it would be a good thing if
there were to be a Sisterhood organized; then the two societies frankly
brought together and allowed to clear up the differences between them."
"But why not?" asked the girl eagerly.
"Because we are pursuing false ideals, we have a wrong conception of what
is _worth while in life_," answered the Scotsman. "Because the sexes
except in rare, very rare, instances, do not understand each other, and
every day are drifting farther apart, while most of the married folk I
know are farthest apart of all.
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