The Little Lady of The Big House by Jack London Chapter 30 Page 18

“Alas, not any longer,” he smiled. “One’s imagination will conjure, and in the past few weeks I’ve been forced to change my mind.”

“You mean that you demand I must be faithful?”

He nodded and said, “So long as you live with me.”

“But where’s the equity?”

“There isn’t any equity,” he shook his head. “Oh, I know it seems a preposterous change of view. But at this late day I have made the discovery of the ancient truth that women are different from men. All I have learned of book and theory goes glimmering before the everlasting fact that the women are the mothers of our children. I� I still had my hopes of children with you, you see. But that’s