She wondered if Patricia's people shouldn't be warned.

She was now persuaded that golf endangered the morals of the young.

It had been bad enough when it seemed merely to encourage the wearing of nondescript clothes.

But if it led to language--?
Yet she was fated to discover that the world offered worse than golf, for Wilbur Cowan had not yet completed, in the process of his desultory education, the out-of-doors curriculum offered by even the little world of Newbern.

He was to take up an entirely new study, with the whole-hearted enthusiasm that had made him an adept at linotypes, gas engines, and the sport of kings.