The Washington times., 1920-07-28
The Restless Sex
A Romantic Film Drama With
MARION DA VIES
BY Robert w. Chambers.

veloping it by Implication and con-
structing II with pensive and ca
PRECIOUS humor limiting Of dreamy
melancholy.
Until the Stephanie Quest Of his
Imagination had become TO him the
fair, and exquisitely Indifferent lit
tie renaissance figure OF his fancy;
ana he, somehow or ouIer, her VIC
tim. And the more exquisite and In
different he created her, the more
she fascinated him. until he COM
pletely hypnotized himself with his
own cleverly finished product.
letter from her woke him up
more or less. jolting him in his
trance 80 that the Jingle and dis
sonance OF the real world filled.
for moment, his enchanted ears.
DEAR JIM:
Your yetters perplex me more and
more. and don't know at all how
10 take them. DO you mean you are
IN love with me? Iscan't believe II.
/ read and re-read your last three
letters-such dear, odd, whimsical
letters!-so wonderfully written,
so full OF beauty and OF poetry.
They do almost sound like love-
letters--or at least as ! imagine
love-letters are written. But they
can't be! How can they be?
And first OF all, even II you meant
them that way, | don't know what
to think. I've never been In love.
/ know how l feel about you-have
always felt. You know, too.
But you never gave me any rea-
son to think-and / never dreamed
OF thinking anything like that
when you were here. IL never
occurred to me. 1t would not oc-
cur TO me now except for your
very beautiful letters--so unlike
you-so strangely sad, so whimsi-
cal. 80 skillful in wonderful phrases
that they're like those vague prose
poems you sent me. which hint
enough TO awaken your imag ination
and set you afiame with curiosity.
But you can't mean that you're
in love with me. / should be too
astonished. Besides, / shouldn't
know what to do about it. 1t
wouldn't seem real ! never have
thought OF you in such way.
What makes a girl fall in lover
Do you know? Could she fall in
love with a man through his let
ters. because they are SO beautiful
and sad and elusive. SO full OF
charm and mystery? I'm in loye
with them. But. Jim. / don't know
what to think about you. I'd have
to see you again, first, anyway.
You are such a dear boy! ] can't
seem to think of you that way.
You know it's a different kind of
love, ours. All can, think about
Is the tremendous surprise-if it's
true.
But / don't believe II is. You are
lonely; you miss dad-miss me,
perhaps. 1 think you do miss me.
for the first time in your life. You
see, 1 have rather a clear mind and
memory. and l can't help RENE m
bering that when you were here
you certainly could not have felt
that way toward me; so how can
you now? l did bore you some
times.
Anyway. I adore you with all my
heart. as you know. Ny affection
hasn't changed one bit since / was
tiny girl and came into your
room that day and saw you down
on the floor unpaclling your suit
case. i adored you instantlyA l
have not changed. Girls don't
change.
Another letter from her some
months later:
You're such a funny boy-just q
boy, still. while in these six months
I've overtaken and passed you in
years. You won't believe it. but
have. Maturity has overtaken me.
am really a real woman.
Why are your letters vaguely re-
proachful. Have / done anything
Were you annoyed when l asked
you whether you meant me to take
them as love letters? You didn't
write for a month after that. Did
/ scare you? You are funny.
I do really think you are in love
not with me. Jim-not with any
other particular girl-but just in
love with love. Writer and artists
and poets are inclined to that sort
of thing, I fancy.
That's what worries me about my
self: / am not inclined that way: !
don't seem to be artistic enough in
temperament to pay any attention to
sentiment of that sort. l don't de-
sire it; / don't miss it; 1t simply is
not an item in the list of things
that interest me. But OF all things
in the world. do adore friendship
Ito He Continued Tomorrow.)
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