After all, Estelle stepped out of her class; didn't she, Del ?" "Yes," said Del, not recognizing the remark as one she herself might have made not many months before.

"Both she and Lorry stepped out of their classes, and into the class where there is no class, but only just men and women, hearts and hands and brains." She checked herself just in time to refrain from adding, "the class our fathers and mothers belonged in." Janet did not inquire into the mystery of this.

"And Estelle has gone to live with poor Lorry's mother!" said she.

"How noble and touching! Such beautiful self-sacrifice!" "Why self-sacrifice ?" asked Del, irritated.

"She couldn't possibly go home, could she?
And she is fond of Lorry's mother." "Yes, of course.