even wrought-iron
brooch with two little pendant polished granite rocks, he only laughed
and put his hand on my shawl a minute and brought me more tea.

So that I could understand something of what Alice was mentioning as she
went on: "You know Lorraine says that, though not the most PROMINENT,
Lyman Wilde is the most RADICAL and TEMPERAMENTAL leader in the great
handicraft development in this country. Even most of the persons in
favor of it consider that he goes too far. She says, for instance, he is
so opposed to machines of all sorts that he thinks it would be better to
abolish printing and return to script. He has started what they call a
little movement of the kind now, and is training two young scriveners."

Elizabeth was shaking her head reflectively as I passed the door, and
saying: "Ah--no compromise. And always, ALWAYS the love of beauty." And
I heard her advising Alice never, never to be one of the foolish women
and men who hurt themselves by dreaming of beauty or happiness in their
narrow little lives; repeating sagely that this dream was even worse for
the women than for the men; and asked whether Alice supposed the Crafts
Settlement address wouldn't probably be in the New York telephone-book.
Alice seemed to be spending a very gratifying afternoon.

My sister Elizabeth's strongest instinct from her early youth has been
the passion inspiring the famous Captain Parklebury Todd, so often
quoted by Alice and Billy: "I do not think I ever knew a character so
given to creating a sensation. Or p'r'aps I should in justice say,
to what, in an Adelphi play, is known as situation." Never has she
gratified her taste in this respect more fully than she did--as I
believe quite accidentally and on the inspiration of these words with
Alice--in taking the evening train to New York with Mr. Goward.

Twenty or thirty people at the station saw them starting away together,
each attempting to avoid recognition, each in the pretence of avoiding
the other, each with excited manners. So that, as both Peggy and
Elizabeth have been born and brought up here; as, during Mr. Goward's
conspicuous absence and silence, during Peggy's illness, and all our
trying uncertainties and hers, in the last weeks, my sister had widely
flung to town talk many tacit insinuations concerning the character of
Mr. Goward's interest in herself; as none of the twenty or thirty
people were mute beyond their kind; and as Elizabeth's nature has never
inspir