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"There do you belie yourself, Mrs Forrest," Terrence assured her "In the first place, you couldn't help doing it Besides, it'd be your bounden duty to do it And, finally, if I may say so, as so lover of a man, with my heart full of a woman and ht to be loved away from them by the wo such lovely things," cried Paula," I'll run aith both you and Leo in the liallantly "But leave space a your fripperies for a few books on the stars that Leo and Iin odd moments"

The combat ebbed away from Leo, and Dar Hyal and Hancock beset Dick

"What do you ame'?" Dar Hyal asked

"Just what I said, just what Leo said," Dick answered; and he knew that Paula's boredom and nervousness had been banished for soer "In , and in accord withI can iine would be to kiss a woman who endured my kiss"

"Suppose she fooled you, say for old sake's sake, or through desire not to hurt you, or pity for you?" Hancock propounded

"It would be, to ivable sin," caame--for her I cannot conceive the fairness, nor the satisfaction, of holding the woer than she loves to be held Leo is very right The drunken artisan, with his fists, may arouse and keep love alive in the breast of his stupid her hulih hands on love With Leo, I would entle with her"

"Then what becoe institution of Western civilization?" Dar Hyal asked

And Hancock: "You argue for free love, then?"

"I can only ansith a hackneyed truism," Dick said "There can be no love that is not free Always, please, reher types And the point of vieers you, Dar The vast majority of individuals ae institution of soe freedom or love freedom Freedom of love, for them, would be merely license of promiscuity Only such nations have risen and endured where God and the State have kept the people's instincts in discipline and order"