Ye gods!' Mrs.Waltham was puzzled for an instant, but the Puritan assurance did not fail her.
'Yes, but that is only improvement of their bodies, Alfred--food and clothing.

The six days are for that you know.' 'Mother, mother, you will kill me! You are so uncommonly funny! I wonder your friends haven't long ago found some way of doing without bodies altogether.

Now, I pray you, do not talk nonsense.

Surely _that_ is forbidden on the Sabbath, if only the Jewish one.' 'Mother is quite right, Alfred,' remarked Adela, with quiet affimativeness, as soon as her voice could be heard.

'Your Socialism is earthly; we have to think of other things besides bodily comforts.' 'Who said we hadn't ?' cried her brother.