They mentioned several things that I had done. I trust they will soon find something more useful to occupy their time. It is about time something was done about ancient spinsters following soldiers about with their flash lights. Walking in the roads and fields accompanied by friends is no crime. These women have an earnest desire for the welfare and morality of the girls.
Preventative work is better than rescue work.
Sex before marriage was the natural female complement to the male frenzy of killing. If millions of men were to be killed in early manhood, or even boyhood, it behoved every young woman to secure a mate and replenish the population while there was yet time. Anyone who lived in London during those feverish months had forced upon his notice a spectacle of debauchery which would have swelled the record of scandal if it had been made public but which is mercifully forgotten because it is incredible.