Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-05-16

mine is! we've Deen 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 wristl Why should
you hold me?"
"Mary, listen"
81 have listened too long. | have
learned what man means when he
says to woman, 1 love you! He
and soul. | wish you to be mine, to
have no power to move independently
of my WILL Because a woman is q
wife is that any reason why she
should have no right to exercise her
own judgment? Must she be coerced
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.
Uill 10 Liz NduoC VI y Jul NOA1lPl0lhts
"Mary, stop-listen to me-"
"No. l have begun now. | will fin
ish. Have l 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. l can be just if am
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.
There were any number of women of
your own set you might have had for
the asking. but you must choose me,
and for something they were not and
never could be to you, and then, Basil
take your arm away-you must needs
proceed to make me over, to cast me in
their mold as rapidly as possible. Now
you'll would not have changed you for
the world learned to love you as
you are, and I wanted you to stay SO.
That is love. But you, after you had
succeeded in making me all over and
had cut me off from the gayety of my
past life, would find you had spoiled
your plaything."
Ssnh J,o% aII dn,f
make you over, Mary, l tell you-I'-
"And l tell you / have heard those
protestations before, and l used to be-
lieve them. Now you must let me
co.
believe them? What did you be-
lieveY'
"You needn't be so bitter. l cannot
believe in a love that is in no sense
just"
"Mary, not justY'
"No! 1t isn't just that you should
ask of me that which you would moi
for moment yield l respect your in,
diyiduality. | trust, love you, but
you
"Mary, Mary. it is enough
"No. Basil. you have stopped my
mouth with kisses before. You shall
not do it this time. l will make you
see Why
81 do see. Mary. and will stop your
mouth-therew
-"why went to my cousins last
week and Why
"Why you are going next week if yor
wish to, dear, and"-
"But l don't wish to-that is, unless
you say / shan't"
"But I say you shallr'
"Then will not"
"And say you shall go off and leave
me morose and sullen here all by my
self, as you threatened and as | de
serve, and shall go this minute"
"And you know l can't get away
when you hold me like this-stop, Basil
shall not let you kiss me again-not
until you tell me you will trust me al
ways, everywhere, anywherew
always. love. everywhere. any
where. Now whatT"
"Now you may
''Thank you. l will whether you viii
or not
care you coming home to dinner?"
"Are you? Yes"
"Yes, love, yes" ."-Chicago Tribune.
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