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Alice says : ‘Do let me show you for once what
I can be, when I feel that I am really loved. I
do not think that I am quite without attraction.
Look at me, am I beautiful? Yes, if you
love me, I am—not otherwise. Am I good?
Yes, when beloved, I am goodness itself. Am I
unselfish? Oh, I can be so unselfish that I have
no thought except for somebody else. . . .’
Alice wishes to share the work to which
Charles has devoted his life, and she is in
despair when outward circumstances make him
withdraw from her. It is her absolute claim to
sacrifice all to the one great important thing: to
remain true to one’s self, one’s vocation, one’s
love. All this is Sonia over again.
And when we see Alice in the second drama,
her violent rupture with the past, her sacrifice of
wealth and position, in order to live in a garret
with Charles, and to work with him,—it is Sonia,
as she dreamt she should have acted, had this
happy choice been left to her.
I have no doubt that her own pen, in describing
these scenes, would have given them a much
warmer and more personal colour than I have
been able to give.
Alice’s dream of a ‘People’s Palace’ on
Herrhamra, of a great Workmen’s Association, her
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