We are a terribly advanced couple, in our ideas, but we lead a thoroughly reputable life.

I sometimes think," she went on, with a sigh, "that all one's tendencies towards the unusual can be got rid of in opinions.

Susan, for instance--that is my secretary's name--pronounces herself unblushingly in favour of free love, but I don't think she has ever allowed a man to kiss her in her life." "Your own opinions ?" he asked curiously.

"I suppose they, too, are a little revolutionary, so far as regards our social laws ?" "I dare not even define them," she acknowledged, "they are so entirely negative.

Somehow or other, I can't help thinking that the present system will die out through the sheer absurdity of it.