“But if people did as you want to do, there’d be a general domestic disintegration. The family would no longer be the social unit.” “Yes—I am all abroad, I suppose!” said Phillotson sadly. “I was never a very bright reasoner, you remember. . . . And yet, I don’t see why the woman and the children should not be the unit without the man.” “By the Lord Harry!—Matriarchy! . . . Does she say all this too?”

