You can't not know what you have once known, and you can't not have seen what you have seen, however much you may wish to do so, or however much other people may wish it." "You are a regular woman, in spite of all your cleverness, and I was a fool to imagine that you would prove more intelligent in the long run than the rest of your conventional and superstitious sex." "Please forgive me for hurting you," besought Elisabeth.
"It is not only that you have hurt me, but I am so disappointed in you; you seemed so different from other women, and now I find the difference was merely a surface one." "I am so sorry," Elisabeth still pleaded.
Tremaine laughed bitterly.

"You are disappointed in yourself, I should imagine.

You posed as being so broad and modern and enlightened, and yet you have found worn-out dogmas and hackneyed creeds too strong for you." Elisabeth smiled to herself.

"No; but I have found the Christ," she answered softly..