The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-28
REVELATIONS
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I HELD a long and stormy session
with my own soul the night after
Grace Draper's first visit to the old
Brennan house in Marvin which we
had furnished into the semblancc OF a
comfortable home The discovery that
| she had been Dicky'S companion in the
selection OF the furnishings of his room
about which he had made so much myS-
| terry was food enough for serious
| thought But, when added to that, came
the news that she intended taking lit
/ tie apartment in the city for the winter,
felt that the time had come for me to
sit down and go over the situation with
myself
Dcky'S pleasure in his room helned
me. He had shared mine until his own
should be ready but within an hour
after he had first exhibited it to his
mother and me he had moved all his
| personal belongings into it. and had
/ given Katie special instructions as to
its care This left my room all my own
again, something for which was SUI
premcly grateful as locked my door
after bidding Dicky and his mother
| good night, and sank down in my chair
! looking out over the moonlit meadow
and woodland framed by my windows
Was Dicky in love with Grace
/ Draper?
Even as | asked the question OF my
self, realized that it was prompted by
my jealousy of the girl, an emotion for
which | always have had the greatest
contempt in the abstract smiled il
] bitter retrospect at the memory OF jib
ing little speeches | had made in m,
Rirlhood days concerning the yer,
green-eycd monster that now attacked
me.
II had been my creed that a jealou
woman degraded herself and lost what
ever hold she might have on her huS
r band by giving way to her feeling
, had said that il ever married and iel
my husbands love slipping away iron
( me to another woman | would not lii
, my finger to keep him
Yet here | was, my theories all shat
tered, sitting alone in my moonlit room
Shivering with the primitive emotion
that swept over me-
Rage, jealousy grief, wild bnglnl
I, for Dicky mingled with loathing at TN
thought Of his presence all had thei
{, way with me. until at last | flung my
self down on my bed, exhausted witt
my own emotions
lay there for long time until grad
, ually sanity came back to me, and
faced the issue before me sQuarely
II my husband were not in love wit
his beautiful model, at least he wa
enough interested in her and on Suiii
ciently intimate terms OF association
' with her to cause any wife uneaslneS'
I "Are You Asleep, Madge2"
But there was nothing could d
about ii, Nv pride forbade me to tr
any of the feminine wileS and graceS o
Dicky with which many women van
quiSh their rivals, and | was determine
Il that | would never lower myself b
,, showing any jealousy OF the girl
! Cordial to her | could not be, but
, i cool civility | could manage. r.
solved never under any circumstance
to mention her name to Dicky in all
diSparaging way
y Then, said drearily to myself,
things turned out as | feared. an
y Dicky grew to love this other woman,
would step quietly out of his lie with
out protest
| This Spartan resolution neatly docl
eted and tucked away, rose and bega
to prepare for bed for had throw
myself on my bed fully dressed
| Bu, had only just unloosened II
iastenings OF my dress when Dicky
voice sounded outside my door
Are you asleep, Madge" he aske
softly
"No," | returned, opening the door.
"Why"
5 Don't you want to put on somethr
and come down on the vcranda;"
asked ITS the most wonderful moor
light night you ever saw. | lay watcl
ing it from my room until made ,
y my mind it was criminal to stay II
doors"
He was so absorbed in his own e
e thusiasm that he had not noticed II
attire in the dim light As | stepp,
out into the hall after throwing a SHAY
around my shoulder, he exclaimed
s astoniShment
d "Why, you're all dressed You we
to your room two hours ago. thong
s you had gone to bed but ! was ~
selfish enough to want to wake you u
II Anything the natter" with si
r, glance a, me that was afraid took
II my Redeemed eyes,
= Out in the Moonlight.
Nothing at al" | answered, dcci
lively 81 was just wakciul, that's all
y am glad YOU thought OF going out. r
', moonlight is wonderful, isn't it,