You must do what you please. But one thing I want you to understand: if
you are not going to act in the matter, I shall do so. I willingly
confess that I am a selfish woman; but I am very fond of Lillie, and if
you abandon her in this cruel and clumsy way, I shall have her to live
with me here, and I shall do my best to console her for the loss of an
ungrateful husband and a pack of stupid, indifferent children.
One word more before I finish my letter. Lillie, as far as I can
recollect, is a year older than I am. Could you not--woman's specialist
as you are--have found some explanation in this fact? Had Lillie been
fifty-five or thirty-five, all this would never have happened. I do not
care for strangers to look into my personal affairs, and although you
are my cousin's husband you are practically a stranger to me.
Nevertheless I may remind you that women at our time of life pass
through critical moments, as I know by my daily experiences. The letter
which I have written to you in a cool reasoning spirit might have been
impossible a week or two ago.
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