You can't,
without labelling yourself a hopeless reactionary, fly right in the
face of cultured society by refusing to associate with Miss King."
"I won't mix myself up with--"
"Come now, Major, that sort of attitude would have been all very well
fifty years ago, but it won't do now. You simply can't shut yourself
up and say that you won't speak to any one who doesn't agree with you
in every opinion you have. As a matter of fact, you associate freely
with lots of people who differ from you in religion and politics far
more fundamentally than poor Miss King does. You can't refuse to know
her simply because she accepts a system of philosophy which you never
heard of till this minute, and even now don't thoroughly understand in
spite of all I've told you about it."
"In any case," said the Major, "I don't like women who flirt. And you
told me yourself that she tried to flirt with you."
"Ah," said Meldon, "now we're getting at your real reasons. I thought
you couldn't be in earnest about the Nietzschean philosophy. That was
merely an excuse. What you're really afraid of is that Miss King might
marry you. I don't blame you for being a little cautious about that,
knowing what you do about the fate of her former husbands.
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