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ther, there were obvious arguments against it, arguments which he did not care to advance to Pat. “Only be certain,” he said after a pause, “that it isn’t merely a casual fascination.” “You know I’m past being an easy necker,” she replied with a touch of self-righteous reproach. 99 “I know that you are of a sensuous temperament “Oh, I hate that word!”

“TY didn’t say ‘sensual,’ my dear. I said ‘sensuous. 9 You are one of those fortunate people who are vividly alive to all impressions of the senses. But with you, the sensuous beauty of life is linked up with imagination. That is why physical attraction alone won’t suffice for you in the long run; sooner or later your mind is going to awaken and demand the things of the mind.” The morbid look of introspection darkened down over her face. “You talk as if I had a mind. I’m an awful fool. You make me forget it when I’m with you a “Because it isn’t true.

You’re a woefully uneducated,

untrained, undisciplined child. But you have the hunger of the mind, the discontent. Just now your senses are hungry” (she winced and flushed) “and so you don’t feel the deeper hunger. You will in time. It is for that time that Iam anxious. The time of the Second Dreaming.” “Tell me,” she begged. “The First Dreaming for you,” he prophesied, “will be passionate and romantic. You may be carried away by mere physical beauty or superficial charm. I have known women of your type marry their chauffeurs or elope with gypsy fiddlers.” Pat gave a tiny snort of disdain. “Probably you are fastidious enough to escape that extreme. But unless the man you choose can satisfy what is deepest in you, you will awake from that First Dream-