The Washington times., 1937-03-19

p1dCCS GAoV AOW VAS r.
aStically.
Conversations about the Union
Of Socialist Soviet Republic SUI
feed them for weeks.
when I go home, I shall turn
out frightfully patriotic" she
said. AT home we take so much
for granted, that these people
would so cherish. A freedom OF
thought, at least Gilbert, !
wish I were better educated,
understood the history Of Social.
ism and of democracy in general.
At that irrelevancy he laughed
you're still young enough to get
through 'DaS Kapital,' at least, u
you start soon."
They were sitting out of doors
IN the warm night.
"I shall start, as soon as we
get home" her voice said reSo
lutely.
Then: We've forgotten our.
selves, mostly, these last weeks,
haven't we, Gilbert? I'm glad. It's
been a rest"
That, he thought, was acute Of
her. They had been in such a
maze of involved emotions since
their marriage, AID more intensely
in the time between the news Of
Felicia'S catastrophe and that
night in Moscow, when she had
said so dutifully and so unhappily,
that if he wanted her to be his
wife, she would. Something had
clarified between them since, a
liking, a trust. 1t was not what
he wanted, butt was better than
nothing.
Russia is so big, and people
are so SMALL" he laughed.
Sometimes, Gilbert, I wish we
could go travelling on and on, and
never think Of ourselves any more.
It will be good to see mother
and father in two weeks Che
noticed that she did not say 'Fe-
liciaD, "but then, all our prob
lens will come alive again"
He thought despairingly: "Whv
doesn't she have more resiliency?
She's just as broken as ever over
that young man and her sister.
She only forgets temporarily.
when she can be absorbed in exter-
nails. Probably Felicia is more
recovered by now than Denise,
actually"
He said: Darling, you don't
have any hardness in you, do
you?"
I'm not sure, Gilbert. I know
I'm very childish and uncertain.
It must be boring to you, some
times"
mo; you're only inexperienced,
q trifle too sensitive. rather too
determined that life must match
your concept of it. It's seldom
that life matches anyone's con-
cepts."
There was a little silence be-
tween them. He broke it. Tell
me, Denise. what troubles you most
about those two people we never
mention. Is it one particular
thing?"
Eyes. Their sureness that what.
ever they want is right. because
they want it,"
That's a kind Of ohtuseness."
"A fortunate obtUseness. thea
She went on Slowly, as if she were
trying to frame a thought not clear
to her: "I don't suppose now that
If you said. Run along. Denise
Go home and see Keith I should
seriously think of going. I shouldn't
know what to say to him. But
want to know what I want
whether it's to snatch him back
from Felicia, if she still las him
and prove to myself at least that
I'm as strong a person as she, anc
as desirable a person; or whether
it's to be able to be contemptuou'
Of her and him, to rejoice thai
you're the better man, and 50 K
forget them finaJ1v-which
haven't been able tn do vet.
"Time was. I wouldn't have tolc
yon any Of that. Gilbert"
''I know that. Well. it's At leas'
a change from debates on the fu
ture Of communism"
She hurried, then: Sometimes
think until I do something to re