Alpha Book

"I was not speaking of
myself," he said. . . . And to himself he wondered: "Was it
_that_--after all? Is that the key to my dreadful inability to
understand? I cannot--I cannot accept it. I know her; it was not that;
it--it must not be!"
And that night he wrote to her:
"If he threatens you with divorce on such a ground he himself is
likely to be adjudged mentally unsound. It was a brutal, stupid
threat, nothing more; and his insult to your father's memory was
more brutal still. Don't be stampeded by such threats. Disprove
them by your calm self-control under provocation; disprove them by
your discretion and self-confidence. Give nobody a single possible
reason for gossip. And above all, Alixe, don't become worried and
morbid over anything you might dread as inheritance, for you are as
sound to-day as you were when I first met you; and you shall not
doubt that you could ever be anything else. Be the woman you can
be! Show the pluck and courage to make the very best out of life.


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