I can't say I like _that_ feeling--do you ?" She seemed to wait for an answer.
"I'm afraid it's in the order of nature," replied Lilian at length with a laugh.
"Very likely.

But I am not content with it on that account.

I know of a thousand things quite in the order of nature which revolt me.

I very often think of nature as an evil force, at war with the good principle of which we are conscious in our souls." "But," Lilian faltered, "is your ideal an absolute independence ?" Mrs.Wade looked far across the water, and answered, "Yes, absolute!" "Then you--I don't quite know what would result from that." "Nor I," returned the other, laughing.

"That doesn't affect my ideal.
You have heard, of course, of that lecture your husband gave at the Institute before--before your marriage ?" "Yes; I wish I could have heard it." "You would have sympathized with every word, I am sure.