"You say in one breath that you are a changed person, and that you are the same person.

If you are a changed person you can't be the same, and if you are the same you can't have changed." "I should really like to know what you are driving at," said Mrs.Slater, calmly.

"It seems to me that we are disputing about words." "Oh, no, not about words! It is a great deal more than a question of words," exclaimed Miss Ludington.

"You say that we old women and the girls who sat here forty years and more ago are the same persons, notwithstanding we are so completely transformed without and within.

I say we are not the same, and thank God, for their sweet sakes, that we are not.