CHAPTER X

ELEUTHERA’S CHOICE Perhaps women are nearer to nature than men, and that is why they are happiest when they are doing the most natural things. To suckle her infant, to tend her house, to teach her child to pray—these are the actions which give a woman the deepest feeling of contentment. There may be more exhilaration in seeing one’s play staged and acted, in pleading for the votes of an electorate, in riding one’s aeroplane across sky and sea, and it is fine that women should thus achieve. Not there, however, lies …