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Lonely Lives 91
John Fockerat begins to live, to dream and work.
Another phase of him, as it were, comes into be
ing; larger vistas open before his eyes, and his-
life is filled with new aspiration for creative work
in behalf of a liberating purpose.
Alas, the inevitability that the ideal should be
besmirched and desecrated when it comes in con
tact with sordid reality! This tragic fate befalls
Anna Mahr and John Fockerat.
Old Mother Fockerat, who, in her simplicity
of soul cannot conceive of an intimate friendship
between a man and a woman, unless they be hus
band and wife, begins first to suspect and insinuate,
then to nag and interfere. Of course, it is her
love for John, and even more so her love for her
son s wife, who is suffering in silence and wear
ing out her soul in her realization of how little she
can mean to her husband.
Mother Fockerat interprets Kitty s grief in a
different manner: jealousy, and antagonism to
the successful rival is her most convenient explana
tion for the loneliness, the heart-hunger of love.
But as a matter of fact, it is something deeper
and more vital that is born in Kitty s soul. It is
the awakening of her own womanhood, of her
personality.
Kitty. I agree with Miss Mahr on many points. She
was saying lately that we women live in a condition of
degradation. I think she is quite right there. It is
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