"What you say seems very true, Mr. Baron. I should be glad to know
where YOU draw the line? Independent action must begin at some
period."
While Mr. Baron hesitated over this rather embarrassing question
Miss Lou startled all her kindred by saying, "I did not intend to
take any part in this conversation, but a glance from my uncle makes
his last remark personal to me. I am at least old enough to ask one
or two questions. Do you think it right, Lieutenant Scoville, that a
woman should never have any independent life of her own?"
"Why, Miss Baron, what a question! Within the received limits of
good taste a woman has as much right to independent action as a
man."
"Well, then, how can she ever have any independence if she is
treated as a child up to one day of her life, and the next day is
expected to promise she will obey a man as long as he lives?"
The angry spots in Mrs. Baron's cheeks had been burning deeper and
deeper, and now she spoke promptly and freezingly, "Mr. Scoville, I
absolve you from answering one who is proving herself to be neither
a child nor a refined woman.
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