The Awakening and Selected Short Stories - Page 150/161

"But, you know," he went on quietly, "I didn't tell him so, it would

have seemed ungrateful, but I can tell you. I've stopped kissing women;

it's dangerous."

Well, she had Brantain and his million left. A person can't have

everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to

expect it.