rgy to
the business in hand--to learning and to helping Palmer learn
the ways of that world which includes all worlds.

Toward the end of the voyage she said to him:

"About my salary--or allowance--or whatever it is---- I've
been thinking things over. I've made up my mind to save some
money. My only chance is that salary. Have you any objection
to my saving it--as much of it as I can?"

He laughed. "Tuck away anything and everything you can lay
your hands on," said he. "I'm not one of those fools who
try to hold women by being close and small with them.
I'd not want you about if you were of the sort that
could be held that way."

"No--I'll put by only from my salary," said she. "I admit
I've no right to do that. But I've become sensible enough to
realize that I mustn't ever risk being out again with no
money. It has got on my mind so that I'd not be able to think
of much else for worrying--unless I had at least a little."

"Do you want me to make you independent?"

"No," replied she. "Whatever you gave me I'd have to give
back if we separated."

"_That_ isn't the way to get on, my dear," said he.

"It's the best I can do--as yet," replied she. "And it's
quite an advance on what I was. Yes, I _am_ learning--slowly."

"Save all your salary, then," said Freddie. "When you buy
anything charge it, and I'll attend to the bill."

Her expression told him that he had never made a shrewder
move in his life. He knew he had made himself secure against
losing her; for he knew what a force gratitude was in her
character.

Her mind was now free--free for the educational business in
hand. She appreciated that he had less to learn than she.
Civilization, the science and art of living, of extracting all
possible good from the few swift years of life, has
been--since the downfall of woman from hardship, ten or
fifteen thousand years ago--the creation of the man almost
entirely. Until recently among the higher races such small
development of the intelligence of woman as her seclusion and
servitude permitted was sporadic and exotic. Nothing
intelligent was expected of her--and it is only under the
compulsion of peremptory demand that any human being ever is
roused from the natural sluggishness. But civilization,
created _by_ man, was created _for_ woman. Woman has to learn
how to be the civilized being which man has ordained that she
shall be--how to use for man's comfort and pleasure the
ingenuities a