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"What of it? I think, that is, it is my own personal conviction

that this is the normal condition of women. Why not? I mean,

distinguons. In our present society it is not altogether normal,

because it is compulsory, but in the future society it will be

perfectly normal, because it will be voluntary. Even as it is,

she was quite right: she was suffering and that was her asset, so

to speak, her capital which she had a perfect right to dispose

of. Of course, in the future society there will be no need of

assets, but her part will have another significance, rational and

in harmony with her environment. As to Sofya Semyonovna

personally, I regard her action as a vigorous protest against the

organisation of society, and I respect her deeply for it; I

rejoice indeed when I look at her!"

"I was told that you got her turned out of these lodgings."

Lebeziatnikov was enraged.