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CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE

"My dear Dana: But I thought you had got over that. How can, how can you bring it all up again? Yes, I know I was very happy last evening, and I did n't much mind your knowing it. So I said, and so I did, as you say. But that did not mean that I am ready to be your wife. It is so hard for a man to understand a woman—it is so hard for you to understand me—that I do not think I ought ever to be your wife at all. I am convinced we should make each other very unhappy. As to marrying you in October, pray regard that point as irrevocably settled. I cannot consider the question for a moment. All the battle blood of my tribe is surging behind me, and I am

"Your

"Wilderness Girl."

"Oh, I love you—yes. I have said it. I cannot unsay it. I cannot unlove, and that is the pitiful part of it. But I do not wish to be your wife in October. You would carry no willing captive to your wedding-day."

"I never knew a person with such a relentless will. I should think, if you loved me as you profess to do, you would have some compassion on me."

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