"If it's a matter of life and death--a person might walk down some other street!" "And I've no doubt," said Captain Prescott, "that if it were known her life, as well as her hat, hung upon it--she might have had a different kind of peg." They laughed.
"Oh, of course, the secret of it is," pronounced the Colonel, "she was a neurotic." For the first time Katie spoke.

"I think it's such a fine thing we got hold of that word.

Since we've known about neurotics we can just throw all the emotion and suffering and tragedy of the world in the one heap and leave it to the scientists.

It lets _us_ out so beautifully, doesn't it ?" "Oh, but Katie!" admonished Mrs.Prescott.

"Think of it! What is the world coming to?
Going forth to meet one's God because one doesn't like the peg for one's hat!" Katie had a feeling of every nerve in Ann's body leaping up in frenzy.
"_God_ ?" she laughed wildly.