sound business principles, there's no
sentiment either. We are human beings--and that means we are first of
all _business_ beings, engaged in getting food, clothing, shelter. No
sentiment--_no_ sentiment, sir, is worth while that isn't firmly grounded.
It's a house without a foundation. It's a steeple without a church under
it."

Norman looked at the old man with calm penetrating eyes. "I shall
conduct my married life on a sound, business basis, or not at all," said
he.

"We'll see," said Galloway. "That's what I said forty years ago--No, I
didn't. I had no sense about such matters then. In my youth the men knew
nothing about the woman question." He smiled grimly. "I see signs that
they are learning."

Then as abruptly as he had left the affairs he was there to discuss he
returned to them. His mind seemed to have freed itself of all
irrelevancy and superfluity, as a stream often runs from a faucet with
much spluttering and rather muddy at first, then steadies and clears.
Norman gave him the attention one can get only from a good mind that is
interested in the subject and understands it thoroughly. Such attention
not merely receives the words and ideas as they fall from the mouth of
him who utters them, but also seems to draw them by a sort of suction
faster and in greater abundance. It was this peculiar ability of giving
attention, as much as any other one quality, that gave Norman's clients
their confidence in him. Galloway, than whom no man was shrewder judge
of men, showed in his gratified eyes and voice, long before he had
finished, how strongly his conviction of Norman's high ability was
confirmed.

When Galloway ended, Norman rapidly and in clear and simple sentences
summarized what Galloway had said. "That is right?" he asked.

"Precisely," said Galloway admiringly. "What a gift of clear statement
you have, young man!"

"It has won me my place," said Norman. "As to your campaign, I can tell
you now that the legal part of it can be arranged. That is what the law
is for--to enable a man to do whatever he wants. The penalties are for
those who have the stupidity to try to do things in an unlawful way."

Galloway laughed. "I had heard that they were for doing unlawful
things."

"Nothing is unlawful," said Norman, "except in method."

"That's an interesting view of courts of justice."

"But we have no courts of justice. We have only courts of law."

Galloway threw back his head and laughed till the tear