It's your duty, it seems to me." "What do you mean ?" "I'd rather not tell you." Edith's glance went sternly to the cradle by her bed.

"Laura pities me," she said, "for having had five children." "Oh, now, my dear girl!" "She does, though--she said as much.

When she dropped in the other day and I tried to be sympathetic and give her a little sound advice, she said I had had the wedding I liked and the kind of married life I liked, and she was going to have hers.

And she made it quite plain that her kind is to include no children.

It's to be simply an effort to find by 'experiment' whether or not she loves Hal Sloane.