The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it. To fall upon
those tales for the first time, when the mind was fresh and the heart was young!
He became aware of an odd phase to this conversation. I didn’t see
everything last time. Here was an experienced man of the
world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and
was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at
her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow
for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult
than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. The man himself
was not a pleasant object. He was now almost
driven to despair. Something, then, to appease the wrath of God; something to blunt this persistent
agony. His invalid wife and her
money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that
permanent relation had been an inter-weaving series of other feminine
experiences, disturbing, absorbing, interesting, memorable affairs. There was a third lady among the younger set. I ate only enough to keep body and soul together. Superstition is the Chinese Reaper. “Why can’t you tell people that you are what you are?
Why all the secrecy?”
She looked beyond the farmhouse.
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