germs. The thing Bryce said he noticed about her was what he called her “purity.” He said that, up to the time he saw Melody, he hadn’t believed it was possible for a woman to be that pure. What John Sherwood said about her isn’t fit to print. What it boiled down to was that women that cold and that ignorant of the facts of life made him sick. The innocence of that girl was an unforgivable attack on all John held dear.
