[The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips]@TWC D-Link bookThe Second Generation CHAPTER XVIII 11/25
I'd feel like a jailer, if you didn't go." "What'll you do in the evenings ?" "Work later, dine later, go to bed and get up earlier." "Work--always work," she said.
She sighed, not wholly insincerely.
"I wish I weren't so idle and aimless.
If I were the woman I ought to be--" "None of that--none of that!" he cried, in mock sternness. "I ought to be interested in your work." "Why, I thought you were!" he exclaimed, in smiling astonishment. "Oh, of course, in a way--in an 'entertainment' sort of way.
I like to hear you talk about it--who wouldn't? But I don't give the kind of interest I should--the interest that thinks and suggests and stimulates." "Don't be too sure of that," said Dory.
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