"Coming home, the following conversation....
'Suppose the women and children secede?'
'Knit your stocking. We have had enough for today.'
Aside: 'She was trying to imitate Thackeray.'
'But you know, our women all speak in that low, plaintive way because they are always excusing themselves for something they never did.'
'And the Yankee women are loud and shrill because they fight it out—fair field and no favor—and when incompatibility comes in, they go out for divorce. And they talk as if money only bought black women in slave countries. Women are bought and sold everywhere.'"
