Article March 13, 1978 Issue

What shall I do?

Elizabeth Carey

While traveling with a girl friend and her brother in Europe, I met a tall, blond Scandinavian boy at a youth hostel in the Alps. He and I liked each other immediately. Since we were all going to Paris, it seemed very natural that he should join us. After about ten days of shared adventures, he and I felt very close.

One morning when he knew my girl friend was out and before I was up, he came casually into my room and lay down on the foot of my bed. I knew what he had in mind, and I felt very much in love with him.

As he was lying there, a thought came very clearly to me. It was a phrase that Mrs. Eddy quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, part of the advice Polonius gives to his son before Laertes leaves home:

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