Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Awful Word To Face a T AM In a very serious writes Ethel from which you so often say heals all may solve this for but meanwhile I would be glad of your you ever advise a woman to divorce her husband for no particular and marry another I don't think you But let me explain the rather unusual My social and club circle Is but I can't consult anyone am Ten years ago I married a man 12 years my I liked I loved my new name and my and we really had some good Then my two children were and things quieted Hart had a small my father died and that source of hospitality and I began to feel that life was a pretty steady Hart began to travel a good deal three years and then my days were duller than even though there was more World Upside Down I met Just a quiet fine man at a card at Then Neither one of us had ever really been in love before and it turned the whole world upside During Hart's when my mother was with the I was free to come and and in the first radiant happiness of our finding each other we were with Roger both truly Roger and his wife had meant nothing to each other for his only daughter was away at No one was and everyone at home happier for the change in for I seemed suddenly alive after so many years of slipping deeper and deeper into a six weeks ago Roger's wife It was only two days after her funeral that in a talk with him I realized that he expects me to divorce Hart and marry He takes the situation for granted and wants to talk to Hart about the absolute truth is that I never stopped loving my I adore my My affair with Roger may have been but I cannot see that it was Nobody was hurt by for no hint of it ever reached his my or the It would be simply no matter how much I wanted to do to tear my life apart and go with Roger to another for he has just changed his Hart and I have been doing over my father's old arranging rooms for the children and changing things and all our friends are looking forward to a housewarming It would completely disrupt five not counting my to have me agree U Roger's He Is Insistent the same he is 1 he takes it all as he as he that it will our love I am almost by In I can't eat or sleep for Roger wants my immediate and talks as if our love were still in the stage it was two years I don't mean it but these things do grow and one does not see them in the beginning as one does later I have argued that my love for my my home and my position in the community are all against my making any such but Roger regards all this as only one more evidence of my unselfishness and and sweeps it away as am quite confident that there will be no real trouble about Ethel's letter I would be glad of your If Ethel is really confident that there is no real trouble here I can only marvel at her If ever there was real trouble in store for a woman who quite obviously wants to hold on to home and husband and this is Between the lines I can read a certain Ethel may begin dimly to suspect that and very likely material comfort have all been jeopardized by her |