The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-06-15
AN GETTING OVER LOVING
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II IL astonishing. little book. how
the mere act OF writing that letter
to Malcolm Stuart has changed
my outlook.
That Ia a. II is now an outlook.
and for many. many months u has
been an '.iuiook" ! have had
nothing 10 think about except Mar
gle wavcrly. and truly her expert.
ences have ioomed large.
Now | am going to take the az.
fairs OF Alice under my wing. II
she will let me.
This morning Pat came 10 see
mo. but manlikc. he did not say
ono word directly about Aliees
terrible tragedy.
The one thing he did say, how.
ever. that touched me deeply was
that Alice had said she would not
think OF leaving me until after the
Vienna specialist had been here.
and N had TO have an operation
she wanted 10 nurse mo thru II.
Then he hesltated n minute and
said, Alice loves sou very much.
Margie.~
NY dear Pat. don't think she
loves me any more than ! love her.
Try 20 imagine what my life would
have been for the last year " II
had not been for her gentle min
lstrations. not only TO my body.
but 10 my soul.
Pat. | think Alice n a woman
in a thousand I am proud TO call
her my friend. She Ia not only
worthy OF bat. TO my mind. vastly
superior 10 any man ! know. In
Guiding You. She will make up TO
YOU for all the sorrow you have
mad with your loves up TO date.
And then Pat said a surprising
thing
why, Margie. rye never been
In love before-never known what
the word meant"
| could not help smiling n little.
for that was so like n man. Pat
had put his former loves into that
convenient "forgettery" OF his and
they we're as tho they had never
been.
Men always think the last love
IL the only love. wonder " you
remember. little book. that even
the great lovers. Heine and Goethe,
never remembered the fair ones
they had loved. but only the ones
they were loving az the time.
George Eliot. being a woman,
was more honest. She frankly
said after the death OF Lewes and
her marriage. why Is II that the
poets and writer's say 30 much
about first love and nothing about
any that comes after?'
How ones mind changes. little
book, II any one said to me at
the moment I shut the book-of-my'
glrlhood that ! would ever have
harboI ed tho slightest thought OF
ever loving any one but Dick !
would have been Mortified and In
suited. but today | know that there
can be a much more passionate
and tender feeling in a womans
heart than I feel for Dlck--than
have ever felt for Dick.
II almost seems to me AZ tho
our marriage was a mistake. and.
little book. when either husband
or wife begins TO sense that. one
may as well own up that the end
is In sight
have not seen Dick since the
evening he came in for a moment
on his way to keep that telephone
engagement. lie evidently has
put in standing order at the
| florists. Three times week |
get beautiful flowers.
At first there used TO be a card
with the word Dick" on IL among
them, but now there is not even
! that.
I called him up today and told
him II seemed useless extrava-
gance to have the florist send
them to me when there we're so
many beautiful flowers in the Sell
win garden.
Don't you want them. Margle -
he asked. 81 thought you loved
4 flowers"
Il do" answered. but II rath-
or seems like bringing Goals to
Newcastle Just now. doesn't IT,
Il had not thought OF that" was
his observation. u will order the
florist to discontinue them"
| wanted TO say: THAT Is Just
Tho roaaon Whv I don't want than