How about putting it that way ?" "And suppose we do ?" agreed Joan, her courage rising.

"Why should we shun one another, as if we were both of us incapable of decency or self- control?
Why must love be always assumed to make us weak and contemptible, as if it were some subtle poison?
Why shouldn't it strengthen and ennoble us ?" "Why did the apple fall ?" answered Flossie.

"Why, when it escapes from its bonds, doesn't it soar upward?
If it wasn't for the irritating law of gravity, we could skip about on the brink of precipices without danger.

Things being what they are, sensible people keep as far away from the edge as possible." "I'm sorry," she continued; "awfully sorry, old girl.

It's a bit of rotten bad luck for both of you.