Evening star., 1915-01-24

l
planation to offer than ths?" Jermyn persisted.
"You have induced me to go through this damned
ceremony by trick What do you expect to gain
by it now? Do you imagine for a moment that l will
consider myself your husbands
She looked up. "You my husband" she
minded him. Nothing alter that"
Jermyns eyes suddenly caught flame "You wear my
name, he cried brutally, if that is any to you!
What else of me do you claim? My company? My
protection? Rubbish! There isn't upon the
face of this earth today, Lucille, whom dislike and
despise as do you'll
She sprang to her feet and stood before him. quver-
ing. His words had stung through her fears. She
ready to fight.
aYou fool, Jermyn!" she exclaimed. @Can't you see
that what 1 did did for your sake well
mine? 1 did nobody any harm. just wanted to save
you from making miserable marriage. You're not
of those who go about the world with their eyes
open. You're at home in your study, surrounded
with your books the hltops in the beautiful,
lonely places of the world but when You down
into the market place you re an idiot. Do you hear
that?-an idiot! You need keeper all the time Your
very vision is distorted You know about many
things in life You know the springs that govern
human action. Your plays wonderful pieces of
geometrical psychology
"But the real men and women of our days, whom one
meets passes along you know about,
Jermyn, than the Arab who rides his camel the
desert. You, Jernyn Annerey daring to tell down
at Annerey that you going to marry little girl
from the theater daughter without Doubt of some
poor tradespeope, girl who has had to struggle all
through her youth to get engagements, making herself
agreeable all conditions of impossible people,
living half the time in want living always in the sort
of way those people must
"Yet you sit in your study and you make a
heroine come down to you from the skies, and you
cothe her and make her beautiful and you carry her
with you in your brain and in your heart and you
wander out into that little bit of London you call the
world and find this moon-faced chit, who can chant
your speeches pretty and knows all the tricks of say
ing them and you Immediately shower upon her all
the wealth of your fancy you throw yourself at her
feeshe, this little actress, is to be dressed in all
those wonderful garments, and you won't see, you
avont see that they never could fit! Oh, you fool,
Jermyn! You fool! l haven't spoken word about
myself It's much for your own sake as for any
ones that have saved you from tying up your life
unworthily."
"Have you finished?"
@Isnt it enougho" she demanded. @We1, I've spoken
of her. Shall l tell you of myself too? Haven't you
heard it already? Look at me- I've told you about
the other men. Well, III tell you about myself A
who is built as am, Jermyn loves only once.
have read as much poetry as you have, thought as
many beautiful thoughts, kept my footsteps clean from
the muddy places; but all the same l have lived in
the world. That's the difference. The strings of life
have pulled at me, they have kept my feet upon the
earth and have measured men and speeches and gone
sereney on, content wait for the greater things.
@Jermyn don't look at me though l were someone
far away 1t is the jewel of life that offer you,
and I've kept it just jealousy you have cherished
your impossible fancies. Don't you feel it? Aren't
you big enough to know it.? l love you with all my
heart and all my soul. l love you that it tor