Alpha Book

For, although he
now understood that he had never known what love, might be--its coarser
mask, infatuation, he had learned to see through; and, as that is all he
had ever known concerning love, the very hint of it had astonished and
repelled him, as though the mere suggestion had been a rudeness offered
to this delicate and delicious friendship blossoming into his life--a
life he had lately thought so barren and laid waste.
No, his sister was mistaken; but her mistake must not disturb the
blossoming of this unstained flower. Sufficient that Eileen and he
disdainfully ignore the trite interpretation those outside might offer
them unasked; sufficient that their confidence in one another remain
without motive other than the happiness of unembarrassed people who find
a pleasure in sharing an intelligent curiosity concerning men and things
and the world about them.
Thinking of these matters, lying back there in his desk chair, he
suddenly remembered that Gerald had come in.


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