human
And what's the result? All social functions and ceremonies are suspended; caterers, florists, confectioners, cabmen, ruined; theatres, restaurants, department stores, novelists, milliners, in financial throes; a falling off of over eighty per cent. in marriages and births--and you are no nearer a vote than you were before the great strike paralysed the business of this Republic.
gpt
Oh! . . . And is that why you are laughing?
human
Yes. It's the funniest strike that ever happened to a serious-minded sex. Because you know your sex, as a sex, is a trifle destitute of a sense of humour----
gpt
That expression, she cut in with bitter satisfaction,
human
Never in my life, he said,