Show WHY THE WOMAN FAINTS Walter Valter Besant thinks that the reason why whymen whymen whymen men have never even in the most ungoverned times faint fainted d so readily as women is that they are slower of imagination Disaster falls upon a family Instantly the wife ife and the daughters daughters daugh daugh- understand what it m means mans mans-in in ans-in in a moment I f of time they see the whole change the change the train of miseries that the disaster will bring the change to poverty the loss Joss of luxuries social consideration friends dignity self-respect self all Amelia found her husband in the sponging house she saw sawall all that it might mean for herself herself herself her her- self and her children and she swooned away away The man slower of perception takes in the truth more gradually often he never takes itin it itin itin in at all because being a man he looks forward forward forward for for- ward to the impossible and thinks he can succeed succeed succeed suc suc- twice Only one disaster strikes him instantly and that is when his doctor tells him he must die Then Then Then-as as physicians have told told told- he swoons away he falls down inanimate at athis athis athis his doctors doctor's feet Yet you may tell even a ayoung ayoung ayoung young and happy woman that she must die and she will not faint Amelia in the age of swo ns os would not have fainted fainted- at receiving this intelligence Why |