"She laughed at the elasticity of my character. "Well in the first place I don't think my ideal would speak like that" said she. "He would be a harder sterner man not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim. But above all he must be a man who could do who could act who could look Death in the face and have no fear of him a man of great deeds and strange experiences. It is never a man that I should love but always the glories he had won; for they would be reflected upon me. Think of Richard Burton! When I read his wife's life of him I could so understand her love! And Lady Stanley! Did you ever read the wonderful last chapter of that book about her husband? These are the sort of men that a woman could worship with all her soul and yet be the greater not the less on account of her love honored by all the world as the inspirer of noble deeds."