Chapter 10
EMOTIONS ARE TRICKY THINGSA man's mind is a tricky thing—or, speaking more exactly, a
man's emotions are tricky things. Love has come rushing to the beck
of a tip-tilted chin, or the tone of a voice, or the droop of an
eyelid. It has fled for cause as slight. Sometimes it runs before
resentment for a real or fancied wrong, but then, if you have
observed it closely, you will see that quite frequently, when anger
grows slow of foot, or dies of slow starvation, love steals back,
all unsuspected and unbidden—and mayhap causes much distress by his
return. It is like a sudden resurrection of all the loved,
long-mourned dead that sleep so serenely in their tended plots.
Loved though they were and long mourned, think of the consternation
if they all came trooping back to tak
