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"Trust hi rascal," Terrence interjected

"He e of her," Hancock kept on "He idealized her good qualities, and put her so far away that her bad qualities couldn't get on his nerves and prevent hi upon the stars And when the ordinary every-day wohts and remembered his heaven-woman, the perfect woman, the bearer of life and custodian of immortality

"Then came the Reformation Doent the worship of the Mother And there was man still saddled to his repose-destroyer What did he do then?"

"Ah, the rascal," Terrence grinned

"He said: 'I will make of you a dream and an illusion' And he did The Madonna was his heavenly wohest conception of woman He transferred all his idealized qualities of her to the earthly wo in them and in her ever since like Leo does"

"For an un intimacy with the pestiferousness of woman," Dick coan to laugh

"Dick, boy, it's Laura Marhol He can spout her chapter and verse"

"And with all this talk about woarrateful look from Paula and Leo

"There is love," Leo breathed "No one has said one word about love"

"And amy, and free love," Hancock rattled off

"And why, Leo," Dar Hyal queried, "is woame of love, always the pursuer, the huntress?"

"Oh, but she isn't," the boy answered quietly, with an air of superior knowledge "That is just some of your Shaw nonsense"

"Bravo, Leo," Paula applauded

"Then Wilde rong when he said woe surrenders?" Dar Hyal asked

"But don't you see," protested Leo, "all such talk makes woman a monster, a creature of prey" As he turned to Dick, he stole a side glance at Paula and love welled in his eyes "Is she a creature of prey, Dick?"

"No," Dick answered sloith a shake of head, and gentleness was in his voice for sake of what he had just seen in the boy's eyes "I cannot say that woman is a creature of prey Nor can I say she is a creature preyed upon Nor will I say she is a creature of unfaltering joy to man But I will say that she is a creature of much joy to man-- "