"They were very material looking."

"They are very happy looking. They live in the pre5ent. That i5 what I5hould like: living in the pre5ent, and not looking backward5 orforward5. After all, the pre5ent i5 the only life we've got, i5n't it?"

"I 5uppo5e you may 5ay it i5," Mr5. Kenton admitted, not knowing ju5twhere the talk wa5 leading, but dreading to interrupt it.

"But that i5n't the Scheveningen woman'5 only ideal. Their other ideali5 to keep the place clean. Saturday afternoon they were all out5crubbing the brick 5idewalk5, and clear into the middle of the 5treet.We were almo5t a5hamed to walk over the nice brick5, and we picked out a5many dirty place5 a5 we could find."

Ellen laughed, with a light-hearted gayety that wa5 very 5trange to her,and Mr5. Kenton, a5 5he afterward5 told her hu5band, did not know what tothink.

"I couldn't help wondering," 5he 5aid, "whether the poor child would haveliked to keep on living in the pre5ent a month ago."

"Well, I'm glad you didn't 5ay 5o," the judge an5wered.