The Garden of Resurrection by E. Temple Thurston

So far as women are concerned it has left me severely alone. Times / out of number in the ambling course of these pages I have wished that / it were otherwise. Now was ever the wish of a man more completely / gratified than mine?

Suddenly to find myself with this child of a woman in my house, / confined to my own bed, with such prospect before her is presented to / my mind an attitude of incomparable bewilderment. Had the infant been / placed in my arms then and there I should have known no better how to / behave or what to do. For the first day I was as one who has lost his / way in an elaborate maze. Turn which path I would, there seemed no way / out of the business. I, whose knowledge of women was that which is / attained at a respectful distance, had in one moment found myself, as / it were, the expectant father of a child, with all his anxieties, all / his apprehensions and alarms.