The Emancipated Man

The Emancipated ManGoing aboard for the flight back east, Walter Hardesty was greeted by a stewardess at the top of the ramp. There had been a time, a recent time, when Walter might have winked at her, when he might have made one of those yearning, suggestive and usually graceless remarks that define a hopelessly married man. There had been that time and now it was behindWalter Hardesty forever. He was still a married man; indeed his marriage was essential to his scheme of things. But now Walter...