"Why, don't you!"
"No."
"I thought you did."
"No; for she says they can only be arrived at through a certain initiation which I have not had — after certain preliminary steps, which I have not yet taken."
Elizabeth looked at him, both surprised and curious.
"What are they?"
Winthrop's face was graver than usual, as he said,
"I wish my mother were here to answer you."
"Why, cannot you?"
"No."