You see, I've been reading up
on the subject as well as Larry. The doctors have been making new
discoveries. They used to think this was just a local infection,
like a cold, but now they find it's a blood disease, and has the
gravest consequences. For one thing, it causes most of the surgical
operations that have to be performed on women."
"Maybe so," she said, still indifferent. "I've had two operations.
But it's ancient history now."
"You mayn't have reached the end yet," I persisted. "People suppose
they are cured of gonorrhea, when really it's only suppressed, and
is liable to break out again at any time."
"Yes, I knew. That's some of the information Larry had been making
love to me with."
"It may get into the joints and cause rheumatism; it may cause
neuralgia; it's been known to affect the heart. Also it causes
two-thirds of all the blindness in infants----"
And suddenly Claire laughed. "That's Sylvia Castleman's lookout it
seems to me!"
"Oh! OH!" I whispered, losing my self-control.
"What's the matter?" she asked, and I noticed that her voice had
become sharp.
"Do you really mean what you've just implied?"
"That Mrs.
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