Excerpt from Five Years to Find Out

"What I should like, " said the Reverend Oscar Hamilton, putting Darwin's Origin of Species on the top shelf of the library bookcase and removing the steps, "what I should like, Cecilia, is to see you a true woman"

"Exactly, said Mrs. Hamilton.

"And a happy woman, " her husband went on, transforming the writing-table into a pulpit desk. "Now a happy woman is a woman who has found her true sphere and stays in it. I think, my dear, you will remember that admirable little definition of dust. Dust is an object - which out of its place becomes highly noxious and displeasing. The same thing is true of a woman who deserts her vocation in life."

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