“Neither do I, Evelyn, except that it is the habit of people to set up their own ways as a standard and model, and to regard every departure from them as a barbarism. If it were not an accepted fact that the Venus of Milo is the most perfect exemplification we have of feminine beauty, and that it is the fashion to go into raptures over that piece of sculpture, I imagine that nine fashionable women in every ten would ridicule the way in which her hair is done up, simply because they do not do up theirs in the same way.”
“Yes, I know,” answered the girl, dreamily, and as if in a reverie. “That was the trouble in the circus.”
“In the circus? What do you mean?”
“Nothing. Don’t ask me.”
IX
THE GREAT WAR GAME
ALL this while the war was going on tremendously and Kilgariff was chafing at the restraint of a wound which forbade him to bear his part in it.