Her life is spent basking in the affection of her husband and the chubby smiles of her dimpled babes, and when in the course of time she finds herself in the twilight of her life, she has at her feet a new generation of her own flesh and blood.

Isn't that better than a literary reputation ?" He spoke so earnestly that Shirley looked at him in surprise.

She knew he was serious but she had not suspected that he thought so deeply on these matters.

Her heart told her that he was uttering the true philosophy of the ages.

She said: "Why, Jefferson, you talk like a book.