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CHAPTER I. "I WILL BE HAPPY! I WILL! I WILL!" II. THE FIRST QUARREL III. KNOWN TO FAME AS LILLIAN GALE IV. DIVIDED OPINIONS V. "ALWAYS YOUR JACK" VI. A MAID AND MODEL VII. A FRIENDLY WARNING VIII. A TRAGEDY AVERTED IX. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN X. GRACE BY NAME AND GRACE BY NATURE XI. "I OWE YOU TOO MUCH" XII. LOST AND FOUND XIII. "IF YOU AREN'T CROSS AND DISPLEASED" XIV. A QUARREL AND A CRISIS XV. "BUT I LOVE YOU" XVI. INTERRUPTED SIGHT-SEEING XVII. A DANGER AND A PROBLEM XVIII. "CALL ME MOTHER—IF YOU CAN" XIX. LILLIAN UNDERWOOD'S STORY XX. LITTLE MISS SONNOT'S OPPORTUNITY XXI. LIFE'S JOG-TROT AND A QUARREL XXII. AN AMAZING DISCOVERY XXIII. "BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET" XXIV. A SUMMER OF HAPPINESS THAT ENDS IN FEAR XXV. PLAYING THE GAME XXVI. A VOICE THAT CARRIED FAR XXVII. "HOW NEARLY I LOST YOU!" XXVIII. A DARK NIGHT AND A TROUBLED DAWN XXIX. "BUT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW—" XXX. THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED XXXI. A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER XXXII. "THE DEAREST FRIEND I EVER HAD" XXXIII. "MOTHER" GRAHAM HAS SOMETHING TO SAY XXXIV. A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST XXXV. THE WORD OF JACK XXXVI. "AND YET—" XXXVII. A CHANGE IN LILLIAN UNDERWOOD XXXVIII. "NO—NURSE—JUST—LILLIAN" XXXIX. HARRY CALLS TO SAY GOOD-BY XL. MADGE FACES THE PAST AND HEARS A DOOR SOFTLY CLOSE XLI. WHY DID DICKY GO? XLII. DAYS THAT CREEP SLOWLY BY XLIII. "TAKE ME HOME" INTRODUCTION
ОглавлениеProbably it is true that no two persons entertain precisely the same view of marriage. If any two did, and one happened to be a man and the other a woman, there would be many advantages in their exemplifying the harmony by marrying each other—unless they had already married some one else.
Sour-minded critics of life have said that the only persons who are likely to understand what marriage ought to be are those who have found it to be something else. Of course most of the foolish criticisms of marriage are made by those who would find the same fault with life itself. One man who was asked whether life was worth living, answered that it depended on the liver. Thus, it has been pointed out that marriage can be only as good as the persons who marry. This is simply to say that a partnership is only as good as the partners.
"Revelations of a Wife" is a woman's confession. Marriage is so vital a matter to a woman that when she writes about it she is always likely to be in earnest. In this instance, the likelihood is borne out. Adele Garrison has listened to the whisperings of her own heart. She has done more. She has caught the wireless from a man's heart. And she has poured the record into this story.
The woman of this story is only one kind of a woman, and the man is only one kind of a man. But their experiences will touch the consciousness—I was going to say the conscience—of every man or woman who has either married or measured marriage, and we've all done one or the other.
