Of course I can't say that the Glittering Lady is as yet absolutely converted to our faith, but I am certain that she has absorbed enough of its principles to justify me in uniting her in Christian wedlock." "Yes," I answered, "she has absorbed its principles; she told me as much herself.

Sacrifice, for instance," and as I spoke the word my eyes filled with tears.
"Sacrifice!" broke in Bickley with an angry snort, for he needed a vent to his mental disturbance.

"Rubbish.

Why should every religion demand sacrifice as savages do?
By it alone they stand condemned." "Because as I think, sacrifice is the law of life, at least of all life that is worth the living," I answered sadly enough.

"Anyhow I believe you are right, Bickley, and that Bastin will not be troubled to marry us." "You don't mean," broke in Bastin with a horrified air, "that you propose to dispense--" "No, Bastin, I don't mean that.