He confided to me that he felt trapped in his marriage, that he was being ruined by fate. He had barely settled at his desk in his library, when he was disturbed by two morning callers. If I did not love you so much I believe I could win you by sheer force of character, for people tell me I am naturally of the dominating type. I shall never come back. The hand that had been clenched lay open, relaxed; and upon the palm he saw her mother's locket. “John?” He turned around in the recliner. All your faults are just jolly modelling to make you real and solid. “Men are curious animals, with a trick of falling in love readily with girls about your age. Things were thrown here and there, to be taken up, or again cast aside, as the whim arose; while the broken-backed chairs and crazy table bore the marks of many a conflict. I should as soon think of trusting a woman. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. “Have to take your turn,” he remarked laconically.
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