She was sitting with us when Thorwald proposed the out-door exercise, and so we all went out together. As we walked, Thorwald said:
“Mona, I fear you have not been enjoying my tedious talk this morning. You would be better pleased, I am sure, with some other topic.”
In her sweet accents, so charming to every ear, Mona responded:
“I hope my lack of attention did not give you offense, Thorwald, but I do not understand the things you have talked about to-day.”
“Not understand? Why, I know from former conversations with you that such things are not beyond your comprehension.”
“Thank you,” said Mona, “but I think they are, for I never before heard anything like the ideas you have advanced.”
“We shall all be glad to learn, then, how these questions were answered and these wrongs righted by your ancestors.”
“They never had any such perplexities,” responded Mona.
“Which means, I presume,” said Thorwald, “that the race became so far advanced before your time that the records and traditions of their early struggles were all forgotten.”
“Oh, no,” she sang out, “that’s not it. What had they to struggle over?”