Arena magazine - Volume 04 . you live with me again ? Marg. The wife-heart has gone out of me, Philip. Philip. Ill wait, Margaret Perhaps it may come back again. Whoknows ? Philip. Is it degrading to forgive ? Marg. No; but it is to condone. Suppose / had broken faith withyou? Philip. Ah, Margaret! Marg. I know! But suppose I had? Why should a wife bear thewhole stigma of infidelity ? Isnt it just as revolting in a husband ?. . Then cant you see that it is simply impossible for me to live with youagain?Philip. Thats my sentence. . Well be friends ? Digitized by VjOOQIC 558 THE ARENA. MargJ Yes
Arena magazine - Volume 04 . you live with me again ? Marg. The wife-heart has gone out of me, Philip. Philip. Ill wait, Margaret Perhaps it may come back again. Whoknows ? Philip. Is it degrading to forgive ? Marg. No; but it is to condone. Suppose / had broken faith withyou? Philip. Ah, Margaret! Marg. I know! But suppose I had? Why should a wife bear thewhole stigma of infidelity ? Isnt it just as revolting in a husband ?. . Then cant you see that it is simply impossible for me to live with youagain?Philip. Thats my sentence. . Well be friends ? Digitized by VjOOQIC 558 THE ARENA. MargJ Yes/ f r i e d d s\Well respect each other asfriends. We never could asin an and wife. As they clasp hands,something latent, organicrushes over her. Shemasters it, puts his handaside : Ring that bell! P 1 ay e d a s plays it, this artis the supreme climaxtoward which the actionmoves from the is her knowledge ofits significance, her be-lief in its justice, andher faith in its benefi-cence, that makes her. Mr. Heme and his daughter Dorothy us Joe and little Lena on the Common. Seepage 567. Digitized by VjOOQIC MR. AND MRS. HERNE. 559 reading so intel-lectually powerfuland seems to beall of the woman,and something ofthe seer, as shestands there asMargaret whoseblindness hassomehow given herinward light, andconviction, a n dstreng th. Sheseemed to bespeaking for allwomankind, whosesorrowful historyAve are only justbeginning to readtruthfully. It isno wonder thatMrs. Heine ap-pealed with suchp o w e r to thethinking womenof Boston. Neverbefore has theirciuse been so statedin America. ()ne of the mostnotice able andgratifying resultsof Mr. and perform-ance was the forcedabandonment by the critics of conventional standards of crit-icism. Every thoughtful word, even by those most severe,was made from the realists standpoint. It forced a com-parison with life and that was a distinct gain. The critics got at last the point of view of those who pra
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