“Besides,″ she said, “it was not a hero I was thinking of. If anybody, it was Catherine Vernon.” “Whom you don’t like. These women, who step out of their sphere, they may do much to be respected, they may be of great use; but ” “You mean that men don’t like them,” said Hester, with a smile; ” but then women do; and, after all, we are the half of creation – or more.”
