“I say!” he cried. When I gave him
an invitation to supper, I little thought he'd accept it. “But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked
at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?”
“I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. She indicated the captain who had
retired behind the sofa. “I didn’t know Mr. Why shouldn’t we be martyrs? There’s nothing else for most of us, anyhow. “Only so many men
neglect their duties. His face fell. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. “Because I hate you!” She spat. ” She went on, with a desperate attempt to be
easy and colloquial:
“You see, we were rather good friends, I thought, and now perhaps it will be
difficult for us to get back to the old friendly footing.
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