XXIII October 1910 No. 4
THE WOMEN OF TO-MORROW {page 486-496 part 3.}
By
WILLIAM HARD
III LOVE DEFERRED
Mary felt she would wait for John even if, instead of going away
on a career, he were going away on a comet.
She waited for him from the time she was twenty-two to the time
she was twenty-six, and would have waited longer if she hadn't
got angry and insisted on marrying him.
Into why she waited, and why she wouldn't wait any longer, chance
put most of the simple plot of the commonplace modern drama,
"Love Deferred." It is so commonplace that it is doubtful if any
other drama can so stretch the nerves or can so draw from them a
thin, high note of fine pain.
We will pretend that John was a doctor. No, that's too
professional. He was a civil engineer. That's professional enough
and more commercial. It combines Technique and Business, which
are the two big elements in the life of Modern Man.
When they got engaged, Mary was through college, but John had one
more year to go in engineering school.
How the preparation for life does lengthen itself out!
When Judge Story was professor at Harvard in the thirties of the
last century, he put the law into his pupils' heads in eighteen
months.
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