CHAPTER Twelve.
"For I come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes shall be they of his own household." "Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you." "HADN'T we better take a policeman along ?" said one of the girls with a nervous laugh.

"It really isn't safe down there, you know." "There's no danger," said Virginia briefly.
"Is it true that your brother Rollin has been converted ?" asked the first speaker, looking at Virginia curiously.

It impressed her during the drive to the Rectangle that all three of her friends were regarding her with close attention as if she were peculiar.
"Yes, he certainly is." "I understand he is going around to the clubs talking with his old friends there, trying to preach to them.

Doesn't that seem funny ?" said the girl with the red silk parasol.
Virginia did not answer, and the other girls were beginning to feel sober as the carriage turned into a street leading to the Rectangle.
As they neared the district they grew more and more nervous.

The sights and smells and sounds which had become familiar to Virginia struck the senses of these refined, delicate society girls as something horrible.