Also,
we really thought some things were right, or at least unavoidable,
which we could readily see would be repugnant to them, and
therefore did not discuss. Again there was much of our world's
life which we, being used to it, had not noticed as anything worth
describing. And still further, there was about these women a
colossal innocence upon which many of the things we did say
had made no impression whatever.
I am thus explicit about it because it shows how unexpectedly
strong was the impression made upon Ellador when she at last
entered our civilization.
She urged me to be patient, and I was patient. You see, I loved
her so much that even the restrictions she so firmly established
left me much happiness. We were lovers, and there is surely delight
enough in that.
Do not imagine that these young women utterly refused "the
Great New Hope," as they called it, that of dual parentage. For
that they had agreed to marry us, though the marrying part of
it was a concession to our prejudices rather than theirs.
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