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—3— destroyed. True enough, there are other things to compensate. Passion. Fleeting illusion.

Sympathy is a potent key to unlock people's hearts—both men and women. By showing myself as sympathetic, understanding, listener, and dropping a world now and then which showed that I followed the story, and knew something on the subject, I have seem the inner hearts of two or three young married women and mothers, and of several young men, married and single, chiefly ex-service boys.

I stand in awe and reverence and almost religious fear; a sort of Greek fatalism comes over me when I see the uncharted sea of the Psyche over which we all must ride, often in a storm and about to founder. Shelly's – Treacherous in calm and terrible in storm – Who shall set forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea" – fits my thoughts on this subject.

Nor is it limited to the young. A War Mother, a widower of fifty and another of sixty five have unwittingly show me