lucy davenport. Well, it was like a merry-go-round at top speed. You felt things wouldn't look a bit like that when you came to a standstill.

amy o'connell. And they don't?

lucy davenport. [With great decision.] Not a bit.

amy o'connell. [In her velvet tone.] I was taught the whole duty of woman by a parson-uncle who disbelieved in his Church.

walter kent. When a man at Jude's was going to take orders . . .

amy o'connell. Jude's?

walter kent. At Oxford. The dons went very gingerly with him over bits of science and history.

[This wakes a fruitful thought in julia farrant's brain.]

mrs. farrant. Mamma, have you ever discussed so-called anti-Christian science with Lord Charles?