I, on the other hand, should be very sorry indeed to think that Cecily has no lot in life besides marriage; to me she seemed a human being to be instructed and developed, not a pretty girl to be made ready for the market.

The rose coloured spectacles had no part whatever in my system.

I have known some who threw them aside at marriage, in the ordinary way, with the result that they thenceforth looked on everything very obliquely indeed.

I'm sorry to say that it was my own fate to wear those spectacles, and I know only too well how hard a struggle it cost me to recover healthy eyesight." "Mine fell off and got broken long before I was married," said Eleanor, "and my parents didn't think it worth while to buy new ones." "Wise parents! No, I have steadily resisted the theory that a girl must know nothing, think nothing, but what is likely to meet the approval of the average husband--that is to say, the foolish, and worse than foolish, husband.

I see no such difference between girl and boy as demands a difference in moral training; we know what comes of the prevalent contrary views.