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182 George Bernard Shaw
learn enough from what was going on in the world before
her eyes, there was no need to talk about it to her. But
then Liz was such a perfect lady! She had the true in
stinct of it; while I was always a bit of a vulgarian. I
used to be so pleased when you sent me your photographs
to see that you were growing up like Liz ; you ve just her
lady-like determined way. But I can t stand saying one
thing when everyone knows I mean another. What s the
use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that
way for women, there s no use pretending that it s ar
ranged the other way. I never was a bit ashamed really.
I consider that I had a right to be proud that we man
aged everything so respectably, and never had a word
against us, and that the girls were so well taken care of.
Some of them did very well: one of them married an
ambassador. But of course now I daren t talk about
such things: whatever would they think of us.
No, it is not respectable to talk about these
things, because respectability cannot face the
truth. Yet everybody knows that the majority
of women,
"
if they wish to provide for them
selves decently must be good to some man that
can afford to be good to them." The only differ
ence then between Sister Liz, the respectable girl,
and Mrs. Warren, is hypocrisy and legal sanc
tion. Sister Liz uses her money to buy back her
reputation from the Church and Society. The re
spectable girl uses the sanction of the Church to
buy a decent income legitimately, and Mrs. War-

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