16/37 They may be all right, but if what you said is true and she really--" "Don't be narrow-minded, Major. I hate that kind of pharisaical bigotry. The fact that Mrs.Lorimer behaved as she did is no reason in the world why you should cut the poor woman. It's a well-known fact that people who are really much worse than she is are freely received into the best society; and, in any case, the latest systems of morality are quite changing the view that we used to take about murder. Take Nietzsche, for instance--" "Who's Nietzsche ?" "He's a philosopher," said Meldon, "or rather he was, for he's dead now. |