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frankly confess you detest. l think
there are men-and one in PARTICULAR
'Basil, l wouldn't so on"
"Why not?'
Because there is a candor l cannot
endure and keep my self respect
"Then I'm not to speak the whole
truth? I'm to keep my reservation"
81 think you'd BETTER"
"Where are you going"
ITO my ROOM"
81 shall not be home to dinner"
Neither shall l."
"Why not?"
Because I'm going away"
''To stay overnight?
"To stay over many nights
MARY"
"Many nights! What do you care?
What do you want with a wife whose
standard of living is what you say |
mine is? We've been unhappy to- |
gether for months. You misinterpret |
everything | say or do. You neither
admire nor trust me-"
81 neither admire nor trust you?
Mary, wait moment"
LET go of my wrist! Why should
you hold me?"
"Mary, listen"
II have listened too long. l have
| learned what a man means when he
says to a woman, 4 love you! He
means: L wish to possess you body
and soul. wish you to be mine, to
have no power to move independently
| fc
wife is that any reason why she
should have no right to exercise her
own judgment? Must she be coerced
by the will of her husband always-al-
ways? Then the meaning of wifehood
is slavery. You have confessed it. The
bane of your existence is that | have
money, which gives me liberty. You
cannot withhold it from me and so
force me to obedience to your will.
That is the cause of your complaint"
"Mary. stop-listen to me-"
mo. l have begun now. | will fin
ish. Have | ever tried to force you
into the companionship of my cousin
and her friends. whom you despise?
Has it ever occurred to you that some
of your friends might be quite as OBJ
jectionable to me? Don't look at me
: like that, Basil. | can be just if l am
T a woman | am just to you. | know
you cared for me once, and it was not
my money that attracted you either"
"No, by heaven, Mary, it,
''Wait a moment. You know you did
care for me-
"Mary. r.
"Wait, Basil-yOu cared for some
thing in me that was not like you
I There were any number OF women o1
e your own set you might have had fol
u the asking, but you must choose me
l. and for something they were not an(
l never could be to you. and then, Basi
y take your arm away-you must need
e proceed to make me over, to cast me Il
e their mold as rapidly as possible. Nov
l. you'll would not have changed you 70
2, the world. learned to love you a
y you are. and wanted you to stay sc
re That is love. But you, after you ha
u succeeded in making me all over an
is had cut me off from the gayety of m
le past life, would find you had spoile
~ your plaything."
In "Oh. throw that all aside. | wouldn
lg make you over. Mary, tell you-I'-
IS. "And | tell you | have heard thos
e. protestations before. and used to b'
1t lieve them Now you must let m
rs go"-
es believe them? What did you b
OF lieve?"
x "You needn't be so bitter. | cam,
as believe in 4 love that is in no sens
I'M just"
in MARY. not just?"
ny mol 1t isn't just that you shOu
ed ask of me that which you would n
lot for moment Yield respect your /
dividuaity. ! trust. love you. b
d. you
"AIary. Mary. it is enough
mo. Basil you have stopped n
Ter mouth with kisses before You shs
ed not do it this time ! will make "
lte see why
Iys 81 do see. Mary. and | will stop 20
mouth there|
ex- -"why went to my cousins Ia
week and why
ial "Why you are going next week II y
his wish to. dear. and
In "But ! don't wish to-that is, unlt
you say shan't."
out "But say you shallp'
our Then | will not"
"And say you shall go off and lea
vii me morose and sullen here all by n
en- self. as you threatened and as !
serve. and shall go this minute"
,uld "And you know | can't get aw
Der when you hold me like this-stop, Ba
and l shall not let you kiss me again.
you until you tell me you will trust me
ms? ways, everywhere, anywhereT
ople always. love. everywhere, a
; in where Now whatY
ntry "Now you may
ev. "Tbank you | will whether you
the or not"
"Are you coming home to dinnerY
e of "Are your. Yes"
). Eyes, love, yes."-Chcago Tribun
the |
that Dietary Repnrtee.