In the depths of her soul there had
been no little pride and exultation that the doctor was being chained
to her chariot wheels, and she remembered quite distinctly that she had
had a strong desire to keep him there. She herself had felt for him
nothing more than cordial friendship and gratitude; but, nevertheless,
there had been mingled with generous compassion some resentment against
the wife, whose appeal she could not disregard.
Two years after that episode, while at home on her summer vacation, she
met a lawyer, a man of high position, wide intellectual sympathies, and
much culture, who promptly fell in love with her and proposed marriage.
He interested her deeply and exercised over her a greater fascination
than any man she had met before, and she gave her promise to be his
wife, without thought as to its effect upon her future. But when she
began to prepare for her return to the medical college he interposed an
amazed veto. If she was to be his wife she must give up all
expectation of a career separate from their home.
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