But you are
not like the others, you consider something more than the outside
advantages to be gained. Tell me, what would you do in my place?"
"I'd wait for the real one to come," cried Miss Lady, turning upon her
almost fiercely, "I'd wait, if it was forever! They have no right to
persuade you. You either love or you don't love and no power on earth
can make it different. You can laugh at sentiment and pretend you
don't believe in it, you can tell yourself a thousand times that you
are doing the sensible thing. You can blind yourself utterly to the
truth for a time. But some day you've got to realize that the only
real thing in life is love, and that you are powerless to make it live
or die."
After that they sat a long time in silence, until Miss Lady rose
abruptly and, making some excuse, took a hurried departure. She was
frightened at what she had said, at what she had thought. She was
terrified at this strange, new self, that spoke out of a strange, new
experience, and set at naught all her carefully acquired opinions. It
was not until she reached home after a brisk walk through the crisp
air, that the turmoil in her brain subsided.
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