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' The suppressed smile
cropped out now unconsciously round the man's lips in a way which was
intensely aggravating to the girl.
'I'll give you a few,' he said. 'Did you ever know a mother just to
a boy who beat her own boy at school?' The girl replied quietly:
'Ill-treatment and bullying are subjects for punishment, not
justice.'
'Oh, I don't mean that kind of beating. I mean getting the prizes
their own boys contended for; getting above them in class; showing
superior powers in running or cricket or swimming, or in any of the
forms of effort in which boys vie with each other.' The girl
reflected, then she spoke:
'Well, you may be right. I don't altogether admit it, but I accept
it as not on my side. But this is only one case.'
'A pretty common one. Do you think that Sheriff of Galway, who in
default of a hangman hanged his son with his own hands, would have
done so if he had been a woman?' The girl answered at once:
'Frankly, no. I don't suppose the mother was ever born who would do
such a thing.


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