To Love
To Love
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e the very commencement of their life together his conscience had not been as easy as he would have liked to have had it. Joan's ideas had been so ridiculously simple and straightforward, she was almost a child, he had discovered, in her knowledge and thoughts. Not that he was a person to pay much attention to principles when they came in contact with his desires, only it annoyed and irritated him to find she could waken an undreamt of conscience in this way. He shook off the feeling, however, with a little laugh, and, rising from the table, crossed over to her, standing behind her, drawing her head back against his heart.
"Not satisfied with our solitude," he teased; "find it dull?"
"No, it's not that," she answered; she had to fight against the temptation to let things go, to lift up her lips for his kiss. "It's because--well, you didn't introduce me, they must have thought it queer."
"Oh, hang it all, dear," he remonstrated, "I could not pass you off as my wife or sister, they would kn
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Joan lives with a man for awhile in London and comes home pregnant where she learns that not everyone sees it like she does. This is the story of Joan and her fight for acceptance.
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