27/31 There is no evidence to show that he is anything but what he appears. Still, I cannot help feeling it, in my fallible human way. Mind you, Frona, I say nothing against the brawl or the place,--men are men, but it is said that he did not act as a man ought that night." "But as you say, father, men are men. We would like to have them other than they are, for the world surely would be better; but we must take them as they are. Lucile--" "No, no; you misunderstand. |