CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | [The Back Way] | 9 |
| II. | [Bainville Effects] | 31 |
| III. | [The Outbreak] | 60 |
| IV. | [Transplanted] | 81 |
| V. | [Contrasts] | 101 |
| VI. | [New Friends and Old] | 126 |
| VII. | [Side Lights] | 149 |
| VIII. | [A Mixture] | 174 |
| IX. | [Consequences] | 204 |
| X. | [Determination] | 229 |
| XI. | [Thereafter] | 256 |
| XII. | [Achievements] | 283 |
Who should know but the woman?—The young wife-to-be?
Whose whole life hangs on the choice;
To her the ruin, the misery;
To her, the deciding voice.
Who should know but the woman?—The mother-to-be?
Guardian, Giver, and Guide;
If she may not foreknow, forejudge and foresee,
What safety has childhood beside?
Who should know but the woman?—The girl in her youth?
The hour of the warning is then,
That, strong in her knowledge and free in her truth,
She may build a new race of new men.
CHAPTER I
THE BACK WAY
Along the same old garden path,
Sweet with the same old flowers;
Under the lilacs, darkly dense,
The easy gate in the backyard fence—
Those unforgotten hours!