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So a favorite son could hardly have retained the purity
that women take as a standard of measurement. "Don't you find ward
politics very hard?" she asked, dropping an experimental plummet, to see
what depths of iniquity there might be.
"I haven't yet."
"But that kind of politics must be very disagreeable to gentlemen. The
men must have such dirty hands!"
"It's not the dirty hands which make American politics disagreeable.
It's the dirty consciences."
"Are--are politics so corrupt and immoral?"
"Politics are what the people make them."
"Really?"
"I suppose your life has not been of a kind to make you very familiar
with it all. Tell me what these long years have brought you?"
"Perfect happiness! Oh, Mr. Stirling--may I call you Peter?--thank you.
Peter, I have the finest, noblest husband that ever lived! He is
everything that is good and kind!" Mrs. D'Alloi's face lighted up with
happiness and tenderness.
"And your children?"
"We have only one. The sweetest, loveliest child you can imagine.


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