But I don't feel as though this Christian Science were more than a
temporary craze; and being just the ordinary every-day woman I am, I
cannot help welcoming the possibility that Winona in course of time
will come to her senses. It may be selfish of me, but I can't help it."
Now, I do not regard the matter from quite such a personal point of
view as Josephine, though I agree with her that I should not have
picked out Christian Science as the most desirable loop-hole of escape
from the trammels of convention. To be sure, as Josephine says, it is
her loss rather than mine, for a father is much less completely
estranged from a daughter who is peculiar than is a mother, in that the
bond of clothes and parties and all the hitherto traditional tastes of
woman does not exist between a father and daughter. Hence it is
probably much easier for me to look at the matter philosophically than
it is for Josephine. Accordingly, though I laugh in my sleeve at the
solemn pretensions of my dear deluded daughter, and am more or less
uncomfortable in consequence of my consciousness that all the sensible
people of my acquaintance are laughing at her also, I am inclined to
watch her progress with a sympathy which includes the hope that she
will work out of her present state of lunacy into a more practical
field, rather than that she will relapse into the stereotyped woman
whom we all know.
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