Should She Have Left Him? — page 256: what you’re looking at

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DOROTH Y’S PROPOSAL. 243 thoughts for a while. Then he remarked, as if his words were a reflection upon what he had been thinking, rather than an answer to her last speech ; “Your sex is incomprehensible.” “To your sex?” laughed the lady. “Only be. cause you look too deeply for our motives.” “Perhaps. Our sex acts from reason; yours from impulse.” “No, not impulse, intuition—conclusions without the slow processes of thought, and with as much purpose and result as from your reason.’ “More.” He thought a moment longer and said kindly: “You are a very good woman, Mrs. Trevor- Allen. To serve people who have won your sym- ‘pathy you would burden yourself with the care of this child.” The lady laughed merrily. “How little you know, after all, of our sex. I'm pure selfishness. This act was prompted by selfish- ness. Bored with the emptiness of my life, I want. something to fill it up.’ “You are deriding yourself,” said the lawyer, not pleased. “I am not,’ said the lady, pleased to see him dis. pleased. “Into the life of every woman, not utterly abandoned to some fault or vice, there comes at some period a desire to have something to love, care for, to worry about, to suffer for. It has come | to me.” _ The lawyer turned upon her a grave look, search- ing yet kindly; into his eyes crept a light of mingled GOMMGIOO cS (GO)