Angels and Women (1924)

ALLIMADES’ STORY
A MONTH has passed since I began my
journal; nothing has happened worth
recording until today when I found an opportunity
to question my father. Mother went
early with Aldeth to gather grapes for drying,
and I had my tasks as usual in the
cypress grove. When they were finished,
knowing that candor would be most acceptable,
I said: "0 my father, on my birthday
by chance I heard a conversation between
yourself and mother, in which you spoke of
beauty as a dangerous gift, as being the
cause of a dreadful condition of the world,
and of your own unhappiness. Would you
kindly tell me the meaning of your words ?"
An expression of deep pain crossed his
features as he replied: "Perhaps the time has
now come, my daughter, when it is proper
to tell you what must sooner or later cer-
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