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CHAPTER VI
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"And you never seem to think I might not want my wife to go on the stage?"
I do not know what unhappy imp1 prompted Tommy to take that tone with me; but whenever I try to fix upon the point of reprehensibleness which led on from my writing to O'Farrell that I would join him in ten days in Chicago, to the tragic2 termination of my marriage, I found myself whirled about this attitude of his in the deep-seated passionate3 Why of my life. Why should love be tied to particular ways of doing things? What was this horror of human obligation that made it necessary, since Tommy and I were so innocently fond of one another, that one of us should be made unhappy by it? Why should it be so accepted on all sides that it should be I? For my husband's feeling was but a single item in the total of social prejudice by which, once my purpose had gone abroad by way of the Rathbones, I found myself driven apart from the community interest as by a hostile tide, across which Higgleston gazed at me with strange, begrudging5 eyes. I recall how the men looked at me the first time I went out afterward6, a little aslant7, as though some ineradicable taint8 of impropriety attached in their minds to any association with the stage.
Whatever attitude Tommy finally achieved in the necessity of sustaining the situation he had created for himself by his backing of my first professional venture, was no doubt influenced by the need of covering his hurt at realizing, through my own wild rush to embrace the present opportunity, how far I was from accepting life gracefully9 at his hands, the docile11 creature of his dreams. Little things come back to me ... words, looks ... sticks and straws of his traditions made
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halfway
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