Believing no longer in God, she no longer feels bound by His commandment: 'Wives be subject to your husbands!' Why, Aunt Bell, if you can imagine Christianity shorn of all its other glories, it would still be the greatest religion the world has ever known, because it holds woman sternly in her sphere and maintains the sanctity of the home.

Now, I know nothing of the real state of Nancy's faith, but the fact that she believes she has a right to please herself is enough to convince me.

I would stake my right arm this moment, upon just this evidence, that Nancy has become an unbeliever.

When I let her know as plainly as English words can express it that she is not pleasing me, she looks either sullen or flippant--thus showing distinctly a loss of religious faith." "You ought to make a stunning sermon of that, Allan.

I think society needs it." "It does, Aunt Bell, it does! And we are going from bad to worse.