It's a law of nature, that's all; keep away from it if you want
security. I can't imagine people of breeding--you will have to overlook
this, Mr. Randon, on the account of Morris--getting so far down the
slide. It belongs to another class entirely, one without traditions or
practical wisdom. Yet, I suppose it is the general tone of the day:
they think they can handle fire with impunity, like children with
parlor matches."
"It can't, altogether, be accounted for so easily," Lee decided. "The
whole affair has been so lied about, and juggled to suit different
climates and people, that hardly any of the original impulse is left on
view. What do you think would happen if for a while we'd lose our ideas
of what was right and wrong in love?"
"Pandemonium," Grove replied promptly.
"Not if people were more responsible, William," Savina Grove added;
"not for the superior. But then, all laws and order were made for the
good of the mob. I don't need the policeman I see in the streets; and,
really, I haven't a scrap more use for policeman-like regulations; I
could regulate myself--"
"And there," he interrupted, "is where Mina fails; she can't run
herself for a damn; she ought to have a nurse. Your theories contradict
each other, as well--you say one thing and do quite differently."
She was silent at this, gazing at her hands, the beautifully made
pointed fingers bare of rings.
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