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 others. I took him on. He is my responsibility, and always will be. Besides there's my duty to my children.'

'I would do anything for your children, Sheilah—give them everything that money, combined with my love for their mother, could provide.'

'I know, Roger. I know you would. But it wouldn't make up for what they would lose. What sort of an example would I be to them if I should run away from the responsibility I took on? If I should desert the father whom I've taught them to love and honor for his gentleness and kindness and faithfulness. No, I shall never even consider deserting Felix. And please let us never mention it again,' she pleaded. 'It hurts me too much. It makes me realize how far away I've strayed. And you mustn't think I don't love Felix,' she added. This was in the very beginning of the realization of her love for Roger, when she was fighting hard to love Felix too—to love two men at once. 'I do. I always have loved him, I think. Differently, of course. It's sort of pity I feel for Felix, while for you'

'Yes, for me, Sheilah?'

'Oh, for youit's just a sort of steady wanting—a kind of gnawing hunger.'

When a woman says a thing like that, in a voice that breaks, and with her eyes misty with tears