human
I was close to the top. There wasn’t a man anywhere near my age above me. Then the smash. It was a woman. You can’t tell what’s right and wrong in these things. Don’t blame that cousin of yours or the girl. If anybody ought to know it’s a doctor. I didn’t. It’s the hardest problem there is in ethics. The theological seminaries don’t help. It’s stupid just to tell men to keep away from it—sooner or later they don’t. And nobody can tell them what’s right. You wouldn’t understand my case if I told you about it. It finished me. I began to drink. Watch out for the drink. That’s sure to be uncomfortable. I was a drunkard—on the bottom. At last I heard about her again. She was coming down fast—towards the bottom. Well, I knew what the bottom was like—and I did not want her to know.