XXIV BENEVOLENCE

Mrs. Murgatroyd Martin thinks only of doing good: That is all that she lives for—to succour the poor, poor, poor. She wants them to lead nobler lives (that is understood): To the world of Culture she opens them wide a door. She tells them of Pater and Pankhurst, of Tagore and Wilde; Of “Man-made-laws” and the virtues of proteid peas; Of Folk-Song, and Art and of sterilised milk for the child: Of the joys of the Morris Dance, and of poetry teas. And when the vile husbands get tipsy, on Saturday nights, She goes round next morning and gives them a piece of her mind, And rouses the downtrodden wives—and when this leads to fights And black eyes, and bad language, she says: “But I meant to be kind!”