‘You’re wonderful!’ ‘Because I saw through you?’ ‘Partly that. But chiefly because you had the pluck to undertake a thing like this.’ ‘You undertook it.’ ‘But I’m a man.’ ‘And I’m a woman! And my theory is, Mr Marson, that a woman can do nearly everything better than a man. What a splendid test-case this would make to settle the Votes for Women question once and for all! Here we are, you and I, a man and a woman, each trying for the same thing, and each starting with equal chances. Suppose I beat you? How about the inferiority of women then?’ ‘I never said that women were inferior.’ ‘You did
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