“On what, then?”

“The crazy ideals of the novels you've been reading—that's all.”

“Ridiculous!”

“You're absolutely sure, for instance, that God made just one man the mate of one woman, aren't you?”

“As sure as that I live.”

“Where did you learn it?”

“So long ago I can't remember.”

“Not in your Bible?”

“No.”

“The Sunday school?”