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They were sitting on the sofa, Minora with clasped hands, gazing admiringly into Miss Jones's face, which wore a very different expression from the one of sour and unwilling propriety I have been used to seeing. "May I ask you to come to tea?" I said to Minora. "And I should like to have the children a little while."
"How very curious!" said Minora, when she had finished. "That is exactly what I was going to say." "Oh, then I have saved you the trouble of putting it together; you can copy that if you like." "But have you a stale soul, Miss Minora?" I asked. "Well, do you know, I rather think that is a good touch," she replied; "it will make people really think a man wrote the book.
"I didn't know you could talk so much, Sage," said Irais at length. "What would you have women do, then?" asked Minora meekly. Irais began to beat her foot up and down again, what did it matter what Men of Wrath would have us do? "There are not," continued Minora, blushing, "husbands enough for every one, and the rest must do something." "Certainly," replied the oracle.
"But I should be a clean object," cried Minora, "and my house would not be full of accumulated dirt." We said nothing there was nothing to be said. "It must be a happy land, that England of yours," Irais remarked after a while with a sigh a beatific vision no doubt presenting itself to her mind of a land full of washerwomen and agile gentlemen darting at door-handles.
Robert Mills Beach, Miss Martha G. Thomas; auditors: Mrs. Ellen H. Thomas, Mrs. Mary F. Kenderdine, Mrs. Minora F. Phillis, Miss N. M. Crumpton, Mrs. Reba Artsdalen, Mrs. Robert Coard, Miss Ellen L. Thomas, Mrs. H. Wilfred DuPuy; directors: Mrs. Edward E. Kiernan, Miss Henrietta Baldy Lyon, Mrs. Emma H. McCandless, Mrs. E. S. H. McCauley, Mrs. Richard S. Quigley, Mrs. George A. Piersol, Mrs.
She got up very reluctantly, but I waited with the door open until she had gone in and the two babies had followed. They had been playing at stuffing each other's ears with pieces of newspaper while Miss Jones provided Minora with noble thoughts for her work, and had to be tortured afterward with tweezers.
In some places the banks of the canals are so high that only our heads appear level with the fields, and it is, as Minora noted in her book, a curious sight to see three female heads skimming along apparently by themselves, and enjoying it tremendously. When the banks are low, we appear to be gliding deliciously over the roughest ploughed fields, with or without legs according to circumstances.
Did you know that women are forbidden to go to political meetings here?" "Really?" Out came the note-book. "The law expressly forbids the attendance at such meetings of women, children, and idiots." "Children and idiots I understand that," said Minora; "but women and classed with children and idiots?" "Classed with children and idiots," repeated Irais, gravely nodding her head.
"I should write some little thing, bringing in the usual parts of the picture, such as knees and toes, and make it mildly pathetic." "But it is by no means an easy thing for me to do," said Minora plaintively; "I have so little experience of children." "Then why write it at all?" asked that sensible person Elizabeth.
"It is a clean land, at any rate," replied Minora. "I don't want to go and live in it," I said for we were driving up to the house, and a memory of fogs and umbrellas came into my mind as I looked up fondly at its dear old west front, and I felt that what I want is to live and die just here, and that there never was such a happy woman as Elizabeth. April 18th.
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