New Britain herald., 1916-07-03
REVELATIONS0F A WIFE
By ADELE GARRISON

door after bidding Dicky and his 1nother goodnight, and sank down in my chair, looking out over the moon- my windows.
 Was Dicky in love with Grace Draper?
 Even as I asked the question of my self, l realized that it was prompted by my jealousy of the girl, an emotion for which I always have had the greatest contempt, in the abstract I smiled in bitter retrospect at the memory o21lbing little speeches I had made in my girlhood days concerning the very green-eyed monster that now attacked me.
 1t had been my creed that a jealous woman degraded herself and lost Whatever hold she might have on her feeling. I had said that if I ever married and felt my husbands love slipping away from me to another woman I would not lift my finger to keep him.
 Yet here I was, my theories all shat tered, sitting alone in my moonlit room shivering with the primitive emotions that swept over me.
 Rage, jealousy, grief wild longing for Dicky, mingled with loathing at the thought of his presence, all had their way with me, until at last flung myself down on my bed, ex- hausted with my own emotions
 l lay there for a long time until gradually sanity came back to me, and I faced the issue before me squarely.
 If my husband were not in love h was enough interested in her and on sufficiently intimate terms of associa- tlon with her to cause any wife un- easiness.
 fAre You Asleep, Madge?" But there was nothing I could do about it. My pride forbade me to try any of the feminine wiles and graces on DiclSy with which many women Vanqulsh their rivals, and I was de- termlned tha I would never lower myself by showing any Jealousy of the 1 girl.
 Cordial to her I could not me. but a, | cool civility I could manage. I re- solved never under any circumstances to mention her name to Dicky in any ! dlsparaging way. Then, l, said dreari1y to myself. if things turned out as I feared and Dlcky grew to love this other woman would step quietly out of his life 1 without protest. This Spartan resolution neatly 1 docketed and tucked away, I rose and ! began to prepare for bed, for I had thrown myself on my bed fully dressed.
 1 But l had only just unloosened the 1asten1ngs of my dress when Dicky's voice sounded outside my door. Are you asleep, Madge?" he asked 1 softly.
 "No,' I returned, opening the door "Why?'
 l Don't you want to put on some thing and come down on the ver- ] anda?" he asked Its the most l wonderful moonlight night you ever i saw. l lay watching it from my room until made up my mind it was crimi- nal to stay indoors.'' He was so absorbed in his own en- tnusiasm that he had not noticed my ! attire in the dim light. As I stepped out into the hall, after throwing a shawl around my shoulders, he ex- claimed in aStOniShment: "Why you're all dressed! You went to your room two hours ago. I thought you had gone to bed, but I was just selfish enough to want to wake you up. Anything the matter with a shreWd glance at me that I was afraid took in my reddened eyes,
 Out in the Moonlight.
 Nothing at all,'' I answered de- cisively, T was just Wakeful, that's all. I am glad you thought of going out. The moonlight is wonderful, isn't it?'
 If only I could keep him from knowing that I had been crying! That was the thought uppermost in my mind as We went down the Stalsss