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 of her conscientiousness. "I never got that way about it myself, prob'ly because I haven't got a deep enough nature. You don't any more, do you Claire?"

"No," she said. "Not about that, anyhow, because I'm older now and I think I've worked out the answer."

"Have you? How?"

"Well, princip'ly by observation."

"I think that's wonderful," he said. "What was the answer, Claire?"

"Well, it's this," she said, and they walked more slowly. "I believe the trouble with most people is, they never think."

"You mean"

"Yes," she said. "I just don't understand their not doing it; but if you turn over the people you know in your mind, how many of them can you find that ever really think?"

Nelson became emphatic, as in a great enlightenment. "By golly, I believe you're right! I believe you've got it worked out—that is the trouble with most people. They don't think."

"It's so strange," Claire murmured, a little sadly. "You'd think they would think"