I liked to go there, where they both spoiled me, and where the softness and the perfume of it all made me useless and dissatisfied after I had come away.

There is no reason in the average man.

But in the Eden was one great serpent--not a real serpent, but a glittering one, like the toy snakes sold at Christmas time.
There is some weakness in our American training of girls.

Visibly and certainly the woman who marries a man engages herself to conduct his household--to relieve him of all troubles there--because he is the bread-winner.

But very few girls seem trained with such idea, though all girls look forward to a marriage and such mutually helpful compact between two human beings.