Partly yes, I have changed a good deal, no doubt.

But I should never have proposed to take her by the hand and let bygones be bygones.

That is an amiable impulse, but anti-social.' 'A favourite word on your lips just now, Rhoda.

Why is it anti-social ?' 'Because one of the supreme social needs of our day is the education of women in self-respect and self-restraint.

There are plenty of people--men chiefly, but a few women also of a certain temperament--who cry for a reckless individualism in these matters.