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Serena stood up. She was addressing the audience, and her imaginary glasses were more in evidence than ever.
"Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen," she said with a slightly scornful dwelling on "gentlemen," as she turned for an instant toward Jimmy Dory, "the subject before us, as I look at it, is this. The family is a sacred, collective body of persons, or cats, who live in one house, and under one head or manager," and she gracefully bowed to our father. "Now, has one member of this body a right to violently and arrogantly detach itself, without the consent of the others?"