"I see what you mean,"I hastened to interrupt at this point,"but these suggestive remarks of yours are getting beyond--Do you think you could defer the rest of your incompleted sentence for a week?"
"Well,for not more than a week,"said my friend,with an air of discomfort in his arrest.
"We shall not suffer so much as we do under our present system,"said my friend,completing his sentence after the interruption of a week.By this time we had both left town,and were taking up the talk again on the veranda of a sea-side hotel."As for the eternal-womanly,it will be her salvation from herself.When once she is expropriated from her household effects,and forbidden under severe penalties from meddling with those of the Standard Household-Effect Company,she will begin to get back her peace of mind,and be the same blessing she was before she began housekeeping."
"That may all very well be,"I assented,though I did not believe it,and I found something almost too fantastical in my friend's scheme."But when we are expropriated from all our dearest belongings,what is to become of our tender and sacred associations with them?"
