QUOTE : Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls<br />Married impossible men?<br />Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out,<br />And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.<br /><br />Repeat 'impossible men': not merely rustic,<br />Foul-tempered or depraved<br />(Dramatic foils chosen to show the world<br />How well women behave, and always have behaved).<br /><br />Impossible men: idle, illiterate,<br />Self-pitying, dirty, sly,<br />For whose appearance even in City parks<br />Excuses must be made to casual passers-by.<br /><br />Has God's supply of tolerable husbands<br />Fallen, in fact, so low?<br />Or do I always over-value woman<br />At the expense of man?<br />Do I?<br />It might be so.