“I should think women ought to be as glad to be women as men are to be men,” he answered.
“No!” — she shook her head — ”no! Everything the men have.”
“But what do you want?” he asked.
“I want to learn. Why SHOULD it be that I know nothing?”
“What! such as mathematics and French?”
“Why SHOULDN’T I know mathematics? Yes!” she cried, her eye expanding in a kind of defiance.
“Well, you can learn as much as I know,” he said. “I’ll teach you, if you like.”