"How can we pledge the future? To bind oneself
to live with a man when perhaps we have ceased to care for him; it's
hideous."
Miss Tolley murmured agreement.
"Our love was beautiful," continued the Human Document, eager,
apparently, to relate her experience for the common good; "just because
it was a free gift. We were not fettered to one another. At any moment
either of us could have walked out of the house. The idea never occurred
to us; not for years--five, to be exact."
The secretary, at a sign from Miss Tolley, made a memorandum of it.
"And then did your feelings towards him change suddenly?" questioned Miss
Tolley.
"No," explained the Human Document, in the same quick, even tones; "so
far as I was concerned, I was not conscious of any alteration in my own
attitude. But he felt the need of more solitude--for his development. We
parted quite good friends."
"Oh," said Miss Tolley. "And were there any children?"
"Only two," answered the Human Document, "both girls."
"What has become of them?" persisted Miss Tolley.
The Human Document looked offended.
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