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Lonely Lives 93
the fact that nothing is so enslaving as hospitality
prompted by a sense of duty.
Miss Mahr. It is a great age that we live in. That
which has so weighed upon people s minds and darkened
their lives seems to me to be gradually disappearing.
Do you not think so, Dr. Vockerat?
John. How do you mean?
Miss Mahr. On the one hand we were oppressed by
a sense of uncertainty, of apprehension, on the other by
gloomy fanaticism. This exaggerated tension is calming
down, is yielding to the influence of something like a
current of fresh air, that is blowing in upon us from
let us say from the twentieth century.
John. But I don t find it possible to arrive at any
real joy in life yet. I don t know. . . .
Miss Mahr. It has no connection with our individual
fates our little fates, Dr. Vockerat! ... I have
something to say to you but you are not to get angry ;
you are to be quite quiet and good. . . . Dr. Vockerat!
we also are falling into the error of weak natures. We
must look at things more impersonally. We must learn
to take ourselves less seriously.
John. But we ll not talk about that at present. . . .
And is one really to sacrifice everything that one has
gained to this cursed conventionality? Are people in
capable of understanding that there can be no crime in a
situation which only tends to make both parties better
and nobler? Do parents lose by their son becoming a
better, wiser man? Does a wife lose by the spiritual
growth of her husband?
Miss Mahr. You are both right and wrong. . . .
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