Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-06-13

ITO my ROOM"
II shall not be home to dinner"
Neither shall - =
"Why not:' fl
because I'm going away" y
'To stay overnightT" 4Ss
ITO stay over many nights"
"NIaryr
MANY nights! What do you caref
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 1 say or do. You neither
admire nor trust me-"
II neither admire nor trust you?
Mary, wait a moment"
Let go of my wrist! Why should
you hold me"
MARY, listen"
II have listened too long. l have
learned what man means when he
says to n woman. 4 love your He
means: L wish to possess you body
and soul. | wish you to be mine, to
have no power to move Independently
of my will Because a woman is a
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 l have
money, which gives me liberty. You
cannot withhold 1t from me and so
force me to obedience to your will.
That is the cause of your complaint"
"Mary, stop-listen to me-"
mo. / 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
| jectlonable to me? Don't look at me
| like that. Basil. l can be just If l am
| a woman. | am just to you. l know
you cared for me once. and 1T was not
my money that attracted you either"
mo. by heaven. Mary, IT,
"Wait 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 | 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 playthlng."
"Oh. throw that all aside wouldn't
make you over. Mary, tell you-I"-
"And | tell you ! have heard those
protestations before. and I used to be-
lieve them. Now you must let me
co.
Believe them? What did you be
lieveY
"You needn't be so bitter. I cannot
believe in a love that is in no sense
just"
MARY. not just?"
/ mo! 1t isn't just that you should
ask Of me that which you would moi
for a moment yield | respect your In
dlviduality, | trust. love you. but
you
'Mary, Mary, II Is enough
mo. Basil. you have stopped my
mouth with kisses before. You shall
not do 1t this time. l will make you
see Why
81 do see. Mary. and l will stop your
mouth-therep
-"why | went to my cousins last
week and why
why you are going next week If yor
wish to. dear. and
But | don't wish to-that Is, unless
you say shan't."
"But I say you shallp
"Then l will not"
"And l say you shall go off and leave
me morose and sullen here all by my
self, as you threatened and as l de
serve, and shall go this minute"
"And you know I can't get ava,
when you hold me like this-stop. Basil
/ shall not let you kiss me again-no
until you tell me you will trust me al
ways, everywhere. anywhereT
always. love. everywhere, any
where. Now whatT
"Now you may
'Thank you. will whether you will
or not"
"Are you coming home to dinner%
"Are you? Yes"
Eyes, love, yes."-Chicago Tribune.