"
"It would certainly be a different world."
It was a relief to Aline to talk, to put into words the external skeleton
facts of the surging current that had engulfed her existence since she had
turned a corner upon this unexpected consciousness of life running strong
and deep. Harley was not a confidant she could have chosen under the most
favorable circumstances, and her instinct told her that in this matter he
was particularly impossible. But to Virginia Balfour--Mrs. Mott had to
leave early to preside over the Mesa Woman's Club, and her friend allowed
herself to be persuaded to stay longer--she did not find it at all hard to
talk. Indeed, she murmured into the sympathetic ear of this astute young
searcher of hearts more than her words alone said, with the result that
Virginia guessed what she herself had not yet quite found out, though her
heart was hovering tremblingly on the brink of discovery.
But Virginia's sympathy for the trouble fate had in store for this helpless
innocent consisted with an alert appreciation of its obvious relation to
herself.
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