They are merely romantic and kindly, which are different and sturdier graces.
Toward morning Dickey will wake and Eleanore will make him black coffee and send him home.

And there will be the end of that.
Conceive such a situation on the outside! Imagine the feminine flutter of the conventional Julia.

Fancy, above all, the hungry gossip of conventional Julia's conventional friends! But in the Village there is very little scandal, and practically no slander.

They are very slow to think evil.
And this in spite of their rather ridiculous way of talking.

They do, a number of them, give the uninitiated an impression of moral laxity.
Their phrases, "the free relation," "the rights of sex," "suppressed desires," "love without bonds," "liberty of the individual" do, when jumbled up sufficiently, make a composite picture of strange and lurid aspect.