8/21 We are really butterflies by instinct, and we are at our best when we are natural. Don't you agree with me, Maggie ?" "From the bottom of my heart," Maggie assented. "Nothing but conscience ever induces me to pull a long face and turn my thoughts to serious things. And I haven't a great deal of conscience." "So you see," Naida continued, smiling up at her host, "when you try to get a woman to talk politics or sociology with you, you are brushing a little of the down off her wings. We really want to be told--other things." "I should imagine," he replied, "that my sex frequently indulged you." "Not so much as I should desire," she assured him. |