Alpha Book

Perhaps
after all a little more was due from you than what you brought to
our partnership--a little more patience, a little more appreciation
of my own inexperience and of my efforts to make you happy. You
were, perhaps, unwittingly exacting--even a little bit selfish. And
those sudden, impulsive caprices for a change of environment--an
escape from the familiar--were they not rather hard on me who
could do nothing--who had no choice in the matter of obedience to
my superiors?
"Again and again I asked you to go to some decent climate and wait
for me until I could get leave. I stood ready and willing to make
any arrangement for you, and you made no decision.
"Then when Barnard's command moved out we had our last distressing
interview. And, if that night I spoke of your present husband and
asked you to be a little wiser and use a little more discretion to
avoid malicious comment--it was not because I dreamed of
distrusting you--it was merely for your own guidance and because
you had so often complained of other people's gossip about you.


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