"You know she only curses like the other women do around here."

"Do you like it?" asked the postmaster.

"I never thought anything about it."

"There you are!" groaned Peter. "If I can only make you see! Doug, a
woman lets down the first bar when she begins to swear and drink. She
begins where Judith is beginning. She's mighty apt to end where Inez is
ending. You just think about ranching in Lost Chief from your mother's
point of view. It's a rough kind of a community, Douglas, compared with
the same class of people in other communities. The talk itself is rough;
how rough you can't appreciate because you've never heard anything else."

There was another silence. Then Douglas asked heavily: "Peter, what am I
going to do to keep Judith from going to Inez for advice?"

"Might not be such bad advice! Inez has no illusions about what she's
doing or what she's paying."

"You don't mean to say Judith ought to go there?"

"No, I don't! But if a kid like you goes there himself, how can you
preach to Judith? And she only goes there for the dancing and fun."

"But I'm a man!"

"I don't care what you are. You can't preach good sermons with a foul
tongue. You ought to have the nerve to look at yourself as you are before
you try to bring up Judith. Lost Chief is still fairly honest. Even your