Darling, don't you know that the only chance a woman has with the world is in her self-control?
When that goes, her chances go, every one of them! Dear--we have latent in us much the same vices that men have.

We have within us the same possibilities of temptations, the same capacity for excesses, the same capabilities for resistance.
Because you are a girl, you are not immune from unworthy desires." "I know it.

The--the dreadful thing about it is that I do desire such things.

Perhaps I had better not even nibble sugar scented with cologne----" "Do you do _that_ ?" faltered Kathleen.
"I did not know there was any danger in it," sobbed the girl.

"You have scared me terribly, Kathleen." "Is that true about the cologne ?" "Y-yes." "You don't do it now, do you ?" "Yes." "You don't do it every day, do you ?" "Yes, several times." "How long"-- Kathleen's lips almost refused to move--"how long have you done this ?" "For a long time.