As a child accepting all that opens to her as a matter of course, she is steered away from it as if it were something evil.

Her first essays at evasion and spying often come to her in connection with facts which are sacred and beautiful and which she is perfectly willing to accept as such if they were treated intelligently and reverently.

If she could be kept from all knowledge of the procession of new life except as Nature reveals it to her, there would be reason in her treatment.

But this is impossible.

From babyhood she breathes the atmosphere of unnatural prejudices and misconceptions which envelop the fact.
Throughout her girlhood the atmosphere grows thicker.