human
You're work atmosphere for me, Jane Judd. I should engage you by the week, to just sit in my studio. How would you like that?
gpt
I would not consider it, thanks.
human
Why not?
gpt
I have many things to do.
human
I think being inspiration to a painter would be more desirable for a woman than just looking after studios.
gpt
I think doing her own work, whatever it is, is the most important thing for a woman.
human
Heavens! Jane Judd, are you one of these 'woman's rights, right or wrong' preachers? You aren't a suffragette, and a freewomaner, are you?
gpt
Yes.
human
Have we nourished a bomb in the studios all these years? Don't get me started on the woman question. I'm a regular cave man.
gpt
All right, I won't get you started.
human
It was a great mistake to begin giving woman an education. It has messed things up dreadfully.
gpt
For women, you mean?
human
No, for men.
gpt
Oh.
human
You don't think that matters?
gpt
Not especially. The progress of the world is what matters, isn't it? Change is always uncomfortable.
human
You've got everything to gain; we're the only losers, so no wonder you're reconciled to it.
gpt
No, we'll all gain by a fairer adjustment. It is just as uncomfortable for women, now, as it is for men. After all, how can it help but be, since we live our lives together, since our main interests are one.
human
But we aren't going on living together! Men are getting sick of it. If women don't let up on these demands we are going to stop marrying them altogether.
gpt
What about the demands men have always made on women?
human
Those were natural demands.
gpt
We can run the world very well indeed without this army of half-baked females, thank you.
human
Can you? That's an interesting discovery. What method have you invented for populating the world you can run without us?
gpt
Don't talk about it. It always makes me mad!
human
All right,
gpt
I suppose you pride yourself on keeping your temper.
human
No. But people who have anything to win never profit by losing their tempers.
gpt
You don't look like a female freebooter. You're the arch-type of womanly woman. At this moment, you look like the priestess of the home.