15/18 "What can they know of it for another ten years? And these babes--" "No," said Mr.Lanley, stoutly; "you're all wrong, Adelaide. It's first love that matters--_Romeo_ and _Juliet_, you know. Afterward we all get hardened and world-worn and cynical and material." He stopped short in his eloquence at the thought that Mrs.Wayne was quite obviously not hardened or world-worn or cynical or material. "By Jove!" he thought to himself, "that's it. |