"Did the Emperor of Prussia ever do more?
You, whom I have never seen in all my life! Any situation that is hard here for you--take it.

Haven't I done as much?
If there's any other fight on ahead unsettled for you, can't you fight it out?
Can't you give me the privilege--since you've been talking of a woman's rights and privileges--to fight out my own battles too--to fight out all of life's fights, even to take all of its losses?
I'd rather have it that way.

That means I want to see you, who you are, what you are, whether you are good, whether you are just, whether you are light, whether----" "You have a keen mind," said he slowly.

"You're telling me to stay here.

If we could meet face to face as though you never had been blind--why, then--I might say something or do something which would make you feel that I believed you never had been married.