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"I think I shall take my supper this evening in your elegant restaurant, which you have just described, if I can find some one to take me! " exclaimed Viola. "I am only too sorry that it is so far off."
"But let me tell you, Miss Viola, in our world you would not wait for some one to take you, if you desired to go anywhere. You would start whenever you felt like it, either alone or in company with others, just as it happens. A woman in our world is as free and independent to go any and all places as a man is. She earns as much with her day's labor as a man does, and is therefore not financially dependent on any man, as you will readily see by an explanation of our monetary system some future time."