human
You'll simply have to choose the sort of husband that hasn't a humble lot,
gpt
Choose? the other shrugged.
human
Where am I to find him? Not in this part of the world, evidently. You see I've been out several years, my dear. And Mother's far too well-bred to take me about husband hunting, even if she were able to afford it--No, no, I shall simply subside gracefully into old maidhood, as so many of us do nowadays. Haven't you noticed the numbers of old maids about here--charming, cultivated women who have waited too long for a possible partner to come and discover them? Filling their lives with Bridge and charity and committee work! Useful, I suppose, and contented enough, but--It isn't what one dreams of! Mere _pis aller_.... And I don't see how the ballot's going to help, do you?
gpt
Except by changing the fashion in female education, mused Joan.
human
Meanwhile we've just got to help ourselves. Pull ourselves up by our own boot-straps.
gpt
And we haven't even got the boot-straps!