“Her hair? Her beautiful hair? Why?”
“Oh! she got sick of putting it up. She is like that. She suddenly does something you don’t expect.”
“But she must look terrible!”
“Oh no. She looks too sweet. And if all the boys at the Detmold wear their hair long, I don’t see why the girls shouldn’t wear theirs short.”
“My mother had her head shaved when she married,” said he, “and she wore a wig.”
“Why did she do that?”
“It is the custom. The woman shows that she belongs wholly to her husband and makes herself unattractive to all other men.”
“What a horrible idea!”
“It is a beautiful idea. It is the idea of love independent of everything else. That is why I thought Morrison must have some reason for cutting her hair.”
“When you know Greta, you will know that she doesn’t wait for reasons.”