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 doubt, yet brought into line with the regularity of garden produce. A woman was needed to work the revolution—she always is—and he found in her what Adam found in his partner Eve. Odd, too, that the greater moral strength should be found in the weaker vessel! Woman is at heart the true revolutionary. Even the shrine of fashion must be newly decked every season or she will no longer worship at it.

She swung off again with her usual inconse- quence.

“Strange how little one can really learn from books, though they embrace the wisdom of the ages. I used to read a lot once—heavy stuff, too! Yet Mrs. Selton knows as much of the future as the wisest of them. I suppose it all depends on the peculiar intellectual attitude. Of course one body of men have merely to support a proposition for another body of men, equally as wise, no doubt, to rise up and destroy it. But surely there is finality somewhere, a truth that, like the diamond in the earth, is waiting to be discovered? We talk of ‘the in- finite, but do we quite grasp what it means?” ‘She looked up at him with smiling lips. “How