46/47 I couldn't, even if I wanted to, love a man who has treated me as George has done. I don't see how any woman could--any woman with a particle of pride and self-respect. Of course I had to live with him after I married him," she finished abruptly. "Marriage isn't made for love. I used to think it was--but it isn't--" "But, Gabriella, you don't mean--you can't--" Mrs.Fowler was really pitiable, for, after all, George was her son, and the ties of blood would not break so easily as the ties of marriage. |