Only it may take time and patience to prove it to her."
Garth sat up and turned a face of blank surprise towards the doctor.
"What an extraordinary statement!" he said. "Do you really mean it?"
"Absolutely," replied the doctor in a tone of quiet conviction. "If
you eliminate all other considerations, such as money, lands,
titles, wishes of friends, attraction of exteriors--that is to say,
admiration of mere physical beauty in one another, which is after
all just a question of comparative anatomy; if, freed of all this
social and habitual environment, you could place the man and the
woman in a mental Garden of Eden, and let them face one another,
stripped of all shams and conventionalities, soul viewing soul,
naked and unashamed; if under those circumstances she is so truly
his mate, that all the noblest of the man cries out: 'This is the
One Woman!' then I say, so truly is he her mate, that he cannot fail
to be the One Man; only he must have the confidence required to
prove it to her.
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