The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-04

what if you had?" asked Helen.
"It wouldn't be crime, would it?
AS a matter of fact, I've no doubt
you've seen your cousin frequently"
"Orestes has been here often, I
suppose" said Hermione, "but it
doesn't seem often. Perhaps that's
because I'm in love with him, as he
is with me. I should have told you
before, but I suspected you don't
care for him."
81 don't care for him." said Helen,
"but then I don't intend to marry
him. Do you? You see the dilem-
ma you've placed yourself in. If
you are to marry him and you defer
to my opinion by concealing your
intentions, then I'm not flattered,
and 1 foresee no happiness in your
marriage. In marriage, If anywhere
you need the courage of your con-
victions, at least at the beginning"
II don't know whether. it's the
courage of my convictions, or just
that I'm angry" said Hermione, "but
I don't admire your kind of courage,
nor the kind of man you ran away
with, nor your ideas about scandal!
I'm not so old as you, but I don't
feel very young.
1--WE grown up watching what you
call your unusual career, and I real
ize without the slightest shame that
I'm more old-fashioned than you
are; I like the responsibility you
seem to dread, I want lover can
settle dow nwith and. be true to,
I'm going to have an orderly home.
I'm sorry tried to save your
reputation for you, since you prefer
it the other way, but no great harm
was done,-none Of your friends
really believed me. What did was
out of duty, have no reason to love
you, owe you gratitude for moth
ing.
"You never made me happy, you
never made any one happy, not even
those who loved you-not my father
nor Paris, nor any of them. Paris
must have seen-he was a fool to
take YOU"
Hermione was a bit amazed, and
on the whole gratif1ed, at her own
indignation and spirit. Helen too
seemed pleased.
"Now you are telling TRUTH" she
said. THANK heaven you are be-
ginning, though it's at the bottom,
with unpleasant things about others.
But I'd rather hear this than those
silly fabrications of yours.
Correct at every point; you have
no reason to love me, and none to
be grateful. I ought to have made
ouhappy-one's child ought to be
happy. But not ones lover; I deny
any obligation there. If we only
knew beforehand, and accepted the
implications, that happiness is the
last thing to ask of love!
"a divine realization of life, yes,
an awakening to the world outside
and to the soul within-but not hap
piness. Hermione, wish I could
teach you now that a man or a
woman loved is simply the occasion
of dream.
"The stronger the love, as we say,
the clearer and more life-like seems
the vision. To make your lover al
together happy would be con-
tradiction of terms; if he's really
your lover he will see in you far
more than you are, but if you prove
less than he sees, he will be I'M
happy"
"Don't you think you're a peculiar
case?" said Hermione. ITO you love
may be this uncertain kind of
trouble, but to other people, as far
as I've observed them around here,
it's a fairly normal, reliable happi-
ness.
"At least they don't talk as you
do, they look comfortable, and they
congratulate the young who have
agreed to marry.
ITO Be Continued
III r.