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Lady Kingswood opened her eyes, surprised and amused
"What does it feel like? My dear--?"
"Oh, surely you knohat I ana--"YOU have been married Well, when you were first married were you very, very happy? Did your husband love you entirely without a thought for anybody or anything else?--and were you all in all to each other?"
Lady Kingsas quite taken aback by the personal directness of these questions, but deciding within herself that Morgana e on her own behalf, answered simply and truthfully-"My husband and I were very fond of each other We were the best of friends and good companions Of course he had his military duties to attend to and was often absent--"
"And you stayed at holy--"I see! That is what all wives have to do! But I suppose he just adored you?"
Lady Kingswood s word to use, my dear!" she said--"I doubt if any ood friends and rub along pleasantly through all the sorrows and joys of life together, they should be satisfied"
"And you call that LOVE!" said Morgana, with a passionate thrill in her voice--"Love! 'Love that is blood within the veins of tiether!' Dear 'Duchess,' that wouldn't suit ME!"
Lady Kingswood looked at her with interested, kind eyes
"But then, what WOULD suit you?" she queried--"You know you mustn't expect the impossible!"
"What the world calls the iana--"And only the i beyond the boundary-line of Lady Kingswood's brain capacity, so she reeably quiescent
"And when your child was born"--pursued Morgana--"did you feel a wonderful ecstasy?--a beautiful peace and joy?--a love so great that it was as if God had given you sohed outright
"My dear girl, you are too idealistic! Having a baby is not at all a romantic business!--quite the reverse! And babies are not interesting till they 'begin to take notice' as the nurses say Then when they get older and have to go to school you soon find out that you have loved THEM far more than they have loved or ever WILL love YOU!"