"What is 'radiantly innocent'?"
"Good Lord! I don't know any definition of it except—you."
"Zoe has no innocence in one sense, Mr. Daab. Her real innocence lies in the fact that life has no ugly secrets from her. She knows the beautiful from the ugly, and why it is so. I think that is what Mr. Daab means by 'radiant innocence,' Zoe.' Fearless knowledge of truth."
He whistled softly in the gloom.
"Extraordinary!" said Mrs. Daab. "And you are one of us—aren't you, dear?"
"For suffrage? Oh yes; and I am going to be a real one when I grow up."
"What else are you going to be?"
"A singer."
"You said that as if you meant it."
"I do. I've already heard nine operas. I am allowed to be anything I want so long as I get to the biggest—the very biggest!"