human
All alone? Where's Jerry?
gpt
Gone to lunch with Mrs. Abercrombie Brendon.
human
Jane, don't you let him do it. I tell you, it is the beginning of the end for you, if you let him go about with these women alone,
gpt
They would have asked me, if I had been here. I was out.
human
Don't you stand for it, Jane!
gpt
After all, it is a part of Jerry's business.
human
Jerry's business is to make women care for him. It is very dangerous business and apt to be bitter for his wife,
gpt
I think I understand his temperament and his temptations fairly well, but I prefer to trust him.
human
You'll regret it, mark my words.
gpt
Sit down and have lunch with me. There isn't much to tempt you, but I'd like to have you.
human
Thanks, I will. I get blue these days. I'm all off my form.
gpt
You take such poor care of yourself. Meals when you remember; no exercise, just work.
human
I wish I could work myself to death. I'm sorry I can't.
gpt
Do you sleep well?
human
No.
gpt
How is 'Woman' coming along?
human
Very uneven. Some days good, some days awful.
gpt
Come over to Union Square with me this afternoon. The I. W. W. people are going to explain the Paterson strike.
human
Are you interested in the Paterson strike?
gpt
Yes, because it affects so many women. I'm deeply interested in woman's industrial fight, aren't you?
human
I used to be. But what's the use? Woman is trying to fight her way against the two strongest forces in the world, first, Nature--her own damnable, emotional impotence--second, Man, the cave-dweller.
gpt
You think men don't want her to advance?
human
Man wants things to go on as they did a hundred years ago; woman, the dependant, the begetter, the chattel.
gpt
Not all of them----
human
Well, we won't get anywhere until men are with us, and help us, and that's--never!
gpt
It's too late to say that. We're started, we are far on the way, we've got to convert them.
human
Have you tried your hand at converting Jerry? Bobs laughed.
gpt
I advise you not to try. He once put it all into a phrase-- The woman I marry must have only one career--Jerry Paxton.'
human
They don't know what we're talking about; they don't want to know. They refuse to admit what education and economic conditions have done to us. It means a readjustment. It's uncomfortable. They won't have it.
gpt
It's human nature to fight change, but change takes place every second, just the same,
human
I hope change breeds a brand of us without sex instinct before I come again,