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136 ARIADNE."Can you not understand? To bethoughtfaithful, faultless,half divine; and all the timeone knows — oh! say it is thanklessness andworthlessnessinone,no doubt itis;but men aremade so. There are womenthat all the time oneworks one's will on them, make one ashamed."" And so one does worse? "He threw his head back with a gesture ofirritation." And leaves them ? Is that worse? Onecannotlive in ah- toorarified; we are but brutes,as nature made us. That is not our fault.Not thatImeant to leave her long, only shetook it so. She could not understand."No, she could notunderstand.It seemed to me that never word more pitifulhad been spoken. She could not understandthat Love wasmortal.He had walked to the edge of the fountain;the moon shone on the water, and the waterreflected the pale and troubled beauty of hisface." We arefaithful only tothe faithless,you oncesaid," he muttered, turningback from the water