human
I can't bear the idea of leaving you, Hadria, especially when you talk like that. I wish, _how_ I wish, that some way could be found out of this labyrinth. Is this sort of thing to be the end of all the grand new hopes and efforts of women? Is all our force to be killed and overwhelmed in this absurd way?
gpt
Ah, no, not all, in heaven's name!
human
But if women won't repudiate, in practice, the claims that they hold to be unjust, in theory, how can they hope to escape? We may talk to all eternity, if we don't act.
gpt
Your reasoning is indisputable, but what can one do? There _are_ cases----in short, some things are impossible!
human
I have thought, at times, that you might make a better stand,
gpt
You know my present conditions, said Hadria, after a silence.
human
I can't overcome them. But perhaps some one else in my place might overcome them. I confess I don't see how. Do you?