see any woman I cared much for either in parliament or in an anatomical
class-room; but on the other hand I feel that women must be left free to
settle that matter. If it is not good, good women will find it out and
recoil from it. If it is good then God give them good speed. One thing they
_have_ a right to--a far wider and more valuable education than they
have been in the way of receiving. When the mothers are well taught the
generations will grow in knowledge at a fourfold rate. But still the
teaching of life is better than all the schools, and common sense than all
learning. This common sense is a rare gift, scantier in none than in those
who lay claim to it on the ground of following commonplace, worldly, and
prudential maxims. But I must return to my Wynnie.

"And what did Mr. Percivale say?" I resumed, for she was silent.

"He took the blame all on himself, papa."

"Like a gentleman," I said.

"But I could not leave it so, you know, papa, because that was not the
truth."

"Well?"

"I told him that I had lost my temper from disappointment; that I had
thought I did not care for my drawings because I was so far from satisfied
with them, but when he made me feel that they were worth nothing, then I
found from the vexation I felt that I had cared for them. But I do think,
papa, I was more ashamed of having shown them, and vexed with myself, than
cross with him. But I was very silly."