‘And you, Maude—would you be equally frank with me?’
‘Yes, dear, I will. I feel that I owe it to you after your confidence in me. I have had my little experiences too.’
‘You!’
‘Perhaps you would rather that I said nothing about them. What good can there be in raking up these old stories?’
‘No, I had rather you told me.’
‘You won’t be hurt?’
‘No, no—certainly not.’
‘You may take it from me, Frank, that if any married woman ever tells her husband that until she saw him she never felt any emotion at the sight of another man, it is simple nonsense. There may be women of that sort about, but I never met them. I don’t think I should like them, for they must be dry, cold, unsympathetic, unemotional, unwomanly creatures.’
‘Maude, you have loved some one else!’
‘I won’t deny that I have been interested deeply interested in several men.’