Black may be really white--and white black; but I'm not going to admit it.

It would make me too much of a dupe.
I take my stand on morals.

And if you give me morals, you must give me the only force that can guarantee them,--Catholicism, more or less:--and dogma,--and ritual,--and superstition,--and all the foolish ineffable things that bind mankind together, and send them to "face the music" in this world and the next!' She sat silent, with twitching lips, excited, yet passionately scornful and antagonistic.

Thoughts of her home, of that Puritan piety amid which she had been brought up, flashed thick and fast through her mind.

Suddenly she covered her face with her hands, to hide a fit of laughter that had overtaken her.
'All that amuses you ?'--said Manisty, breathing a little faster.
'No--oh! no.