"Kant, wasn't it," she answered, "who marvelled chiefly at two things: the starry firmament above him and the moral law within him.

And they're one and the same, if he'd only thought it out.

It's rather big to be good." They carried their tea into the sitting-room.
"Do you really think she'll get over it ?" asked Madge.

"Or is it one of those things one has to say ?" "I think she could," answered Joan, "if she would pull herself together.
It's her lack of will-power that's the trouble." Madge did not reply immediately.

She was watching the rooks settling down for the night in the elm trees just beyond the window.