Terrible
need. I didn't think when I came to you that you would do business on
any other terms than you did."
"I envy the fellow that awakens you."
"Oh, I've been awakened! Awakened to the fact that a woman out in the
world has to fight through a barrier of yourselves that you men erect.
But I'm not afraid of your barrier. In the last analysis I know, that I
have the situation in hand. Every woman has. It is a matter of whether
she will or she won't! I had an alternative--that night. Could have
taken it, but wouldn't. Would do the same over again. A man invariably
takes his cue. You took yours. Even a street masher takes his cue from
the look in her eyes whether he will or won't follow up."
"Right, but public sentiment is all on the woman's side."
"It's worth more to me to know that the situation was in my own hands
than it is to play the sensational role of more sinned against
than usual."
"You're immense."
Dryly, "Doubtless, from your point of view."
"From any--"
"Now look here. I need this position here more desperately than I ever
needed anything in my life. It means the success or failure of something
that I've staked every card on, of a fight that nobody in the world
would understand--possibly not even myself.
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