"I don't know whether I am or not. He's just a kid, you know. I suppose the
proper end of such a romance is that we should marry. But then I wouldn't
be married to a man that I couldn't look up to."
"But women don't invariably love that way. I'm sure you're in love with the
boy. Have you never thought as to whether you were or not?"
"Have I? I should smile! I thought of it even on the first night, after I
picked him up, when I locked him in his room. But I have always regarded
him in a sort of motherly way, although only a year older. It seems kind of
unnatural for me to love him as a woman loves a man. If he was only older!"
"Ah, that wish is sure evidence that you love him!"
"One thing I do know is that, though he always obeys me, he doesn't care as
much for me as I do for him."
"How do you know that?"
"He wouldn't think so much of other girls if he did. He doesn't look upon
me as a woman for him to fall in love with. He regards me as an older
sister. Why, he never even takes a girl to supper after the performance
without asking my permission."
"And you give it?"
"Yes; but he never knows how I feel when I do.
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