The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-05
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Dick went away on Sunday
night. He did not evince the
slightest curiosity when told
him what Eleanor said to me.
Neither did he mention that he
had been at the hospital.
! did not mention the fact that
saw someone that looked like
him coming out of the gate, for
would be ashamed to have him
think l am Suspicious.
| j would say that jealousy Is
made up of selfishness and self
depreciation.
/ guess ! am too egotistical to
be jealous. l have never yet seen
q woman that l think would suit
Dick better as q wife than l, Just
as | have never yet seen q man
who would suit me better as a
husband than Dick, with all his
faults.
might be hurt and unhappy II
/ thought Dick cared for any
woman more than he did for me,
but l hope l would be big enough
to settle the question in the right
way.
Mrs. Tenney was over to see
me today. and she said: Some
times, Mrs. Waverly, l wonder II
| did right In getting a divorce
from Will? l don't believe he Is
happy and I know I am not. II
sometimes think IL could have
just managed to put up with him
for few years until he had
grown wiser or at least older we
would have spent the last years
OF our life in content. IL not great
happiness.
when woman Is young she
Is very apt to think that unfaith-
fulness is the greatest of all sins
against her. Perhaps 1t is, but
do you know | am beginning to
feel that one can forgive an occa-
sional lapse easier than one can
bear constant pickering, constant
fault-finding and constant sordid
stinginess.
'Bill was always good to me-
when he was with me. He gave
me all the money wanted to
spend; he would have divided his
last dollar with me. He never
was cross with me, and | do not
think that, with the exception of
Miss Malram. he ever really cared
for any one of the many women
on whom he showered his care
free attentions.
"Since / have been separated
from him | have never found a
man who suited me as well, yet !
let him go out of my life because
| was jealous and suspicious, and
now I'll probably go to my grave
alone and unhappy. Yes. my dear
Mrs. Waverly, although | tried to
love another man, | found it i'm
possible and / am unhappier
without Will than | was with him.
AS he would say, That's going
some,'" she added with a woeful
laugh.
do you think he really cared
for Kitty Malram?" she asked
rather wistfully.
YES" / answered truthfully;
II think he cared for her very
much, and you will forgive
me for saying that you should
have made your decision early
in that affair. You should
have either entered the lists
with Kitty and made your
self so attractive that Bill would
have been glad to come back into
the fold or else you should have
given him his freedom so that he
could have taken Kitty. AS 1t is,
you have spoiled both his and
your own lives. Fortunately, r
think Kitty Malram has married
better than IL she had taken Mr..
Tenney."
81 don't see why" flared up
Mrs. Tenney. "Will Tenney Is
kindness itself to the woman with
whom he is in love"
Yes, that is just it, my dear,
but you see he is not always In
love with the same woman" Even
she had to smile at this.
Have you seen him lately?"
Now, little book, can you tell
me what there is about Bill Ten
ney, who is As years old, getting
bald and undeniably fat. that is so
fascinating that two splendid
women like Mrs. Tenney and
Kitty Malram should continue to
think about him and inquire
about him so solicitously from
time to time?
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