Sylvester says.'
'That isn't for us to decide,' said Mistress Mary soberly. 'I might
have been careless and impertinent enough to say it a year ago, but
not now. Lisa has all along been the victim of cruel circumstances.
Wherever she has been sinned against through ignorance, it is
possible, barely possible, that the fault may be atoned for; but any
neglect of duty now would be a criminal offence. It does not behove
us to be too scornful when we remember that the taint (fortunately a
slight one) transmitted to poor little Lisa existed in greater or
less degree in Handel and Moliere, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Petrarch,
and Mohammed. The world is a good deal richer for them, certainly.'
Mrs. Grubb elevated her head, the light of interest dawned in her
eye, and she whipped her notebook out of her pocket.
'Is that a fact?' she asked excitedly.
'It is a fact.'
'Is it generally known?'
'It must be known by all who have any interest in the education of
defective persons, since it touches one of the bug-bears which they
have to fight.'
'Is there any society in this city devoted to the study of such
problems?'
'There is a society which is just on the point of opening an
institution for the training of defective children.
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