38/43 In time Marian and Blackford will begin to see the shadows. I should think--I should think"-- and he saw that she was deeply moved--"that a man would want the love of his children; I should think he would want them to be proud of him." "His children; yes; I haven't thought enough of that." She had so far controlled herself, but an old ache throbbed in her heart. "In college, when I heard the girls talking of their homes, it used to hurt me more than you can ever know. There were girls among my friends whose fathers were fine men,--some of them great and famous; and I used to feel sure that my father would have been like them. I felt--that I should have been proud of him." And suddenly she flung her arms upon the table and bowed her face upon them and wept. |