| Show i i I IM MY M HEART AND MY HUSBAND Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase of Revelations of a Wife WHAT MADGE DID TO QUIET HARRIET HARRIET HAR HAR- RIET BRAITHWAITE my I think my sister-in-law sister saw thought in my face for she Eho looked up at atme atme atme me with eyes suddenly grown cynical long as I 1 have lived as When you OU i have my dear she said slowly and I I mentally braced myself to hear something something something some some- thing disagreeable I I have always found that the expression generally prefaces something I would rather rattler not hear hear hear- You hear you U will learn that tenderness and ancI devoted attention are no flo especial criterion of a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's love Of or course they often otten accompany accompany pan pany it but if a man Is ia not a cad or a a. beast and arid has ceased to love his wife he feels such a remorse such a desire to tomake tomake tomake make up to her for the thing he can no longer give her to save her from the knowledge of her loss that he Is far more devoted than the man whose heart Is la wholly in his wife's keeping and Is Is therefore therefore therefore there there- fore careless about proving the fact I felt as If It I were a small girl again and had hael Just been compelled to swallow a nauseous dose of or medicine I could not deny that there was a certain bitter plausibility about her philosophy but my whole being protested against itI it itI I think you are wrong I said hotly Wily Why If I L believed that I should be beI I miserable all the time I 1 never would I know whether whether- HER MORBID CRY I stopped short for two reasons I was unwilling to discuss Dicky with his sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter and the grim little thought came to tom toma tomo m mo ma that even if it I accepted her philosophy It would rather reassure me than otherwise otherwise other other- wise as to Dicky's love for me His Ills I i tenderness and arid devoted attention were not so uniformly conspicuous as to warrant warrant warrant war- war I rant me rae in suspecting they were as asI as- as I There was a hard note nole in the little I laugh she gave but I subtly knew that the tile hardness was not directed toward me me but toward helse herself 1 will wll not need to 0 worry for a I anum-I number number num num- ber of years yet not if It you keep the looks i t you posse possess s. s she retorted But years rears from now when you look 1001 In your mirror I I I and realize that as far as your beauty Is ia concerned you jou OU are a corpse that ought to tobe tobe be burled buried then you will wll know what suffering suffering suffering suf- suf I fering means especially if it you jou OU are comI com corn comI I polled to contrast your our appearance against I the fresh tresh glowing beauty of ot a girl who I I though uncontrollable circumstances Is I thrown-Into thrown dally Intimate con contact with I husband your our I i I did something then which I never I thought to do to my august sister in I bent over her and taking her by her I shoulders shook her slightly If It I 1 didn't realize that you ou are really suffering over this Harriet I said se seI severely se- se erel verely I should shake you until your teeth chattered and laugh myself into I hysterics while I was doing it it Of all the I ridiculous rot I ever heard that is the I limit Oh Oh you ou arent aren't the tile first one Ive I've heard say it it but I never heard a woman j I of your our brains and looks say it before Do U realize my ray dear that you are e one j you iO iOa I of fo fott tt the most stunning J women o I have a ever e ever seen and that your h husband looks quite an old man beside you I HIS OTHER SELF I I did not give her a chance to answer or to protest but rushed on to say the I I things I have hae been compelled to leave unuttered unuttered unuttered un- un uttered many other times when I have heard similar sentiments expressed by 1 I women in the forties There are fools tools of course among middie middle mid mid- dIe dle aged men Just as there are congenital mid mid-I Idiots among women But I do believe I Harriet that this idea so 80 carefully fostered fos- fos I fos-I fostered i that a middle b by neurotic persons aged wife Is in constant danger of ot havIng havIng hav- hav Ing lag her husbands husband's affections wander from her is a horrible tallac fallacy Husbands and wives who havo have gone down the years shoulder to shoulder as comrades arent aren't apt to give anything more than a 3 passing I admiration glance at youth or beauty I II I dont don't Imagine that Edwin Is worrying I about his bis gray hair hall and the old lines behind be be- I I hind ilind his ears and his sagging cheek muscles mus mus- cles suffering des suffering because he thinks you have havo been attracted by some handsome I young oung In his hospital hospital hospital-do do you I How absurdly ridiculous Her voice was disdainful but I caught a lessening of tension in it nevertheless No more ridiculous honestly Harriet than your idea Why you ou are your husbands husband's husbands husband's hus bus bands band's other self He is perfectly lost I without you vou Ill I'll wager he never had a disloyal al thought toward you OU Not ot a a. conscious one Ill I'll admit she she T But Hut 1 T was wall not ilot blind Margaret l t. t and anti KatherIne is such an adorable girl I 1 Isee see how he could help help help- tV Of course he was attracted by iby There was no use my denying thlE thir which Katherine herself herselt had tol tole but did it ever occur to you H that his feeling for her was star shut outburst of ot thwarted ja ing for the daughter he ire has neve who might have been just such sucha a T Think ink it o over oer er JR I 1 kissed her and went swiftly out room |
