“I daresay darling, you have lost me.”
“What I am saying, my love, is that though society shall quite rightly place shame upon the Ascariot name, that it may not be entirely due to their breeding.”
“Oh?”
Mr. Longhorn went back to his paper and opened to the page where Watson’s weekly column was printed. He lowered his glasses and began to read aloud: “Psychology as the behaviorist views it,’ Watson wrote, ‘is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent on the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness."
Mr. Longhorn looked up at his wife as though the paragraph s
