You are just ME, doing the things I should have done if I had not been a woman.

Well,"-- she drew her breath quickly,--"when I was a girl it seemed as if there was something in me that I must say, so I tried to write poems.

No, I never told you before.

It had counted for so much to me I could not talk of it.

I always sent them to the paper anonymously, signed 'Sidney.' Oh, it was long--long ago! I've been dumb, as you might say, for years.