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 was not even asked. There was not so much as a by-your-leave to the lady, in the matter of her most intimate personal concern. Oh, isn't this clearly where the reconstruction of civilisation shall commence?

Only for the man in khaki to come home again it waits. Then with the new woman, together at last, they can build the new world aright. For never again shall we permit any such skewed and twisted and one-sided job as that of the past. "Dear," she will say, "you did it as well as you could, probably, that old world. But the trouble was, that you did it alone."

And with a little whimsical smile, she'll quote for him the old proverb that "two heads are better than one." Then perhaps they will walk in the garden in the evening. And with her hand in his arm, she will speak as she never could speak before—as a free woman who has found her soul! There were things, I think, that God forgot when he talked to Moses and to St. Paul. But now he's told them to her.

Listen: "Marriage," she will say, "marriage, dear, we must make over so that it shall be something very sweet and very sacred."

Oh, it wasn't always that yesterday. There are women who know it wasn't. When a man could say to the woman the law gave to him, "Come unto me to-night, or I shall not give you money with