The Reckoning Author:Edith Wharton "The marriage law of the new dispensation will be: THOU SHALT NOT BE UNFAITHFUL?TO THYSELF." A discreet murmur of approval filled the studio, and through the haze of cigarette smoke Mrs. Clement Westall, as her husband descended from his improvised platform, saw him merged in a congratulatory group of ladies. Westall's informal talks on "The Ne... more »w Ethics" had drawn about him an eager following of the mentally unemployed?those who, as he had once phrased it, liked to have their brain-food cut up for them. The talks had begun by accident. Westall's ideas were known to be "advanced," but hitherto their advance had not been in the direction of publicity.« less