Minturn. "No one sympathizes with me!"
"That is untrue," said Leslie. "I care, or I wouldn't be doing what I am
now. And as for sympathy, I haven't a doubt but every woman of your
especial set will weep tears of condolence with you, if you'll tell them
what you have me. There is Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Farley, and a dozen women
among your dearest friends who have divorced their husbands, and are free
lances or remarried; you can have friends enough to suit you in any
event."
"Fools! Shallow-pated fools!" cried Mrs. Minturn. "They never read
anything! Their idea of any art would convulse you! They don't know a note
of real music!"
"But they are your best friends," interposed Leslie. "What then is their
attraction?"
"I am sure I don't know!" said Mrs. Minturn. "I suppose it's unlimited
means to follow any fad or fancy, to live extravagantly as they choose, to
dress faultlessly as they have taste, freedom to go as they please! Oh
they do have a good time!"
"Are you sure that they didn't go through the same 'good time' you are
having right now, before they lost the men they loved and married, and
then became mothers who later deliberately orphaned their own children?"
"Leslie, for God's sake where did you learn it?" cried Mrs.
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