27/39 You didn't object to Minnie's going--at seventeen. Why should you object to my going--at twenty-one." "I haven't objected--so far," replied her father. "Have your plans also allowed for the affection and duty you owe your parents ?" "I have done my duty--as well as I know how," she answered. "Now I am twenty-one, and self-supporting--and have a right to go." "O yes. You have a right--a legal right--if that's what you base your idea of a child's duty on! And while you're talking of rights--how about a parent's rights? |