“And not only warm them but light them. My word when they take you out of their warm parlours into cold corridors and land you in an icehouse with a little bit of a flickering candle.”
“You’re not tempted to read in bed and you go to sleep in healthy bracing air; it keeps you hardy .”
“Do you never read after you retire?”
“I do; and have the gas and a lamp to keep warm. I like warm rooms and I think in many ways it must be lovely to be able to wear muslin dresses indoors in snowy weather and put on a fur coat to go out; but I should be sorry to see the American warm house idea introduced into England.”
“You’re willing to be inconsistent then.”
“Consistency is the something of something minds.”
“I guess our central-heated residences would appeal to you.”
“I know they would. But I should freeze in the winter; because I shouldn’t be able to wear a fur coat.”
“How so?”
“I’m an anti-vivisectionist.”
“Then you’d best stay where they’re not needed. Your winters don’t call for them. It’s the funniest thing in life the way your wimmun go around in furs.”
“Furs are frightfully becoming; like lace and violets.”
“Then you exonerate them although you’re against the slaying evidently, as well as the use of beasts for experiment.”
“They don’t think.”