It seems to me," she continued, thoughtfully, "that the prime
condition of effectiveness is constancy, and only that opinion can be
constant that has truth for a foundation, because no other basis would
remain to hold it up."
"That may be true," was the reply, "if you take matters in a
sufficiently long range, but you seem to me to be viewing things from
the standpoint of eternity."
The smile with which she said these last words was so charming that
Helen warmed toward her, and she smiled also in replying,--
"Isn't that, after all, the only safe way to look at things?"
"What deep waters we are getting into," Edith commented. "And yet they
say women are always frivolous."
"The Boston luncheon," returned Mrs. Frost-winch, "is a solemn assembly
for the discussion of mighty themes. Yesterday, at Mrs. Bodewin
Ranger's, we disposed of all the knotty problems relating to the lower
classes."
"I didn't know but it might be something about my house. The last time
Mrs. Greyson lunched here we solemnly debated what a wife should do
whose husband did not appreciate her."
She spoke brightly, but there was in her tone, an undercurrent of
feeling which touched Helen, and betrayed the fact that this return to
the old theme was not wholly without a cause. Mrs. Greyson divined that
Edith was not happy, and with the keenness of womanly instinct she
divined also that there was not perfect harmony between Mrs.
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