Love- And the Philosopher: A Tale of Sentiment on the Eve of War

“YOU women are always so sentimental!” said the Philosopher. “You overdo the thing. You carry every emotion to an extreme limit. It shows a lamentable lack of judgment.”

In the long, tranquil spring of 1914, we find a poignant prelude to a vanishing world. in a sun-dappled English garden, a battle of heart and mind begins. He is the Philosopher-a older man of cool reason and cynical wit, who dismisses love as a foolish overindulgence. She is his gentle but spirited companion, a young woman w...