human
But, Jane, what has happened to you?
gpt
Life, experience, marriage, baby; all the big things have happened to me since I began that book. I'm only just beginning to be _me_, Martin.
human
I was astonished, Jane! It was as if sunshine suddenly played over a gray room. The room was charming, well appointed, choice, but a trifle cold. But now, you've let the sun into it. It's warm, it's human, it's home.
gpt
That's what I want you to feel. I'm just as new-born as baby. I had to write it all over, to bring me up to date. I feel so young--younger than I ever felt in my life. Of course, youth must be a state of mind, since I find mine when I'm almost thirty.
human
Certainly, wise woman, youth has nothing to do with time. It comes to some of us young and to some of us late. When it comes to us at thirty we are lucky, for by that time we know how to value it. The old saying that no actress under thirty is a good Juliet has true psychology behind it. She has only just gotten far enough away at thirty to analyze youth, to dramatize it, get at the heart of it.
gpt
My youthful vigour is such, Martin, that at this rate I shall be through by Christmas,
human
How do you manage--small infant, house, gifted husband, and secret career?
gpt
I have health, brains, and a most sensible husband. He helps with the baby.
human
You mean it?
gpt
Certainly. While I work, he watches son; while he works, I watch son.
human
But he doesn't know about your work.
gpt
No. But I convinced him that it was fair to divide the responsibility a little.
human
I'd no notion that he had modern ideas on this subject.
gpt
He hasn't. He is the most anti-feministic, 'woman's-place-is-in-the-home' enthusiast you ever heard preach.
human
But he practises Ellen Key!
gpt
Oh, well; who ever held a preacher strictly to practice?
human
And we men go on believing that the serpent actually fooled Eve, back there in the Garden!