"Yes,I see what you mean,"I said.This is what one usually says when one does not quite know what another is driving at;but in this case I really did know,or thought I did."That survival of the conscience is a very curious thing,especially in our eternal-womanly.I suppose that the North American conscience was evolved from the rudimental European conscience during the first centuries of struggle here,and was more or less religious and economical in its origin.But with the advance of wealth and the decay of faith among us,the conscience seems to be simply conscientious,or,if it is otherwise,it is social.The eternal-womanly continues along the old lines of housekeeping from an atavistic impulse,and no one woman can stop because all the other women are going on.It is something in the air,or something in the blood.Perhaps it is something in both."
"Yes,"said my friend,quite as I had said already,"I see what you mean.
