6/39 But what you don't understand is that men can't lord it over women now as they used to do. You say--you"-- she stammered a little--"you love me. I don't know yet--what I feel. But I know this: A man who forbids me to do this and that--to talk to this person--or dance with some one else--a man who does not trust and believe in me--if I were ever so much in love with him, I would not marry him! I should feel myself a coward and a slave!" "One is always told"-- said Falloden hoarsely--"that love makes it easy to grant even the most difficult things. |