Somehow I think that things would have settled down into a more usual groove." Morris did not attempt to answer.

He felt that Mary held all the cards, and, not unnaturally, was in a mood to play them.

Moreover, it was desecration to him to discuss Stella's most secret beliefs with any other woman, and especially with Mary.

Their points of view were absolutely and radically different.

The conflict was a conflict between the natural and the spiritual law; or, in other words, between hard, brutal facts and theories as impalpable as the perfume of a flower, or the sound waves that stirred his aerophone.