human
Oh, now do let's be sensible! With an impatient movement of her lithe beautiful figure Ethel was up off the bed and walking the room with grim resolution in her brown eyes. Soon she was much quieter. She felt the warm youth within her rise. There must be a way! So far, so good. But the moment she tried to think what way, again at once she was off her ground. What could she do or say to Joe? Her failure to manage him that afternoon had shaken her confidence in herself. Ethel was only twenty-five, and now she felt even younger than that. All at once in a sickening way her courage oozed; she felt herself ignorant and alone. Why did not Joe come back, she asked. Was he going to stay away all night? And if he did, what would it mean? She remembered what he had said when he left:
gpt
Then you and I are through, you know. All right, then what was he going to do!
human
I don't even know how a man goes about it, if he wants to get a divorce! And panic seized her as before.
gpt
I can't do this all by myself! I can't talk to him as I've got to talk--not till I know just what to say! I bungled it so! I need sound advice! Oh, for somebody to help me!