“Because it isn’t nice. Don’t you know what modesty is?”
“No; what is it?”
“It’s—it’s—well, it’s just that you mustn’t show your body to people.”
“Isn’t my face my body?”
“That’s different. Everybody shows his face.” She considered that.
“If everybody showed their bodies it would be nice, wouldn’t it?”
“No,” Wally said, harshly, because he felt she was making a fool of him.
“But the barbarians never wore any clothes, and they were nice.”
“That’s different. They didn’t know any better.”