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 what they become! This is a problem that man wisely shirks; but he will no longer be able to shirk it when he thinks more. The waste of woman, the cruel waste of woman! Not all her own fault, either. Oh, I’m not blaming men. ‘They are what circumstance has made them; I think we are all what circumstance has made us. But of all women, think kindliest of her who has never known the kiss of lover or child.”

“The loveless woman,” he muttered.

“The poor, lonely, loveless woman, who sits with folded hands and tells her heart to be still; whose breast is aching for love, and who dare not speak of her anguish. Have you thought of this tragedy, Perseus?”

“I shall think of it,” he said.