‘Oh, ah. “Stop this—this humbugging,” he explained. Marriage!—and no woman by to tell the child what it was! The shocks and
disillusions she would have to meet unsuspectingly—and bitterly. “What if you get pregnant?” His worry came to a
quick fruition. Queer old gentleman!
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so
carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own
knowledge. He
would pick a random member of the ever-shifting
household for the sake of example. He wasn't satisfied
with an assured income from the paper-mills your grandfather left us. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. In the subdued light she could not tell
whether he was asleep or awake. I've been thinking about it ever since morning. And yet, as she rose
slowly to her feet and stood looking at him with outstretched hands, a strange
mixture of expressions shining in her wonderful eyes, he realized in some
measure the strength of her determination, felt the utter impotence of anything
which he could say to her. Three little letters
can’t make a bit of difference. Always remember that. A new restlessness seemed to have stolen in upon her. She had to make sure, for the peace of her mind,
that this was really the man.
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