"
"She's too old, I know," Isabel continued, with the brutality of
confident youth, "but sometimes older women do fall in love with young
men."
"Why shouldn't they?" queried Madame, lightly, "as long as older men
choose to fall in love with young women? As far as that goes, it would
be no worse for Allison to marry Rose than it is for him to marry you."
"But," objected Isabel, "when he is sixty, she will be seventy, and he
wouldn't care for her."
"And," returned Madame, rather sharply, "when he is forty, you will be
only thirty and you may not care for him. There are always two sides to
everything," she added, after a pause, "and when we get so civilised
that all women may be self-supporting if they choose, we may see a
little advice to husbands on the way of keeping a wife's love, instead
of the flood of nonsense that disfigures the periodicals now."
"They all say that woman makes the home," Isabel suggested, idly.
"But not alone. No woman can make a home alone. It takes two pairs of
hands to make a home--one strong and the other tender, and two true
hearts.
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