Show MRS BACKBAY AIHOT SMIIED The Cliilly Young Boston Lnrty Wni Teiuvttttl to Be Ioltic I had a dreadful experience at the Music hall at Btavenhagen matinee said the serious young woman I dont know how to relate it Try said her aunt And the los words something like these Well I was late at the Music hall The first piece was half done and I was hurrying in when a woman I didnt know and never saw stepped up tome to-me and said I beg your pardon You dont mean to say she spoke to you without an introauctlonl Yes said the other woman lust as if Boston Music hall was an Italian railway station or a Spanish picture gallery Wasnt it shocking Of course I paid no attention to her Then the pushing thing said I beg your pardon again more feebly and stood there grinning at me In a sort of amiable way The thought Oashed over me that perhaps she wanted me to buy a ticket for her She had on a hat i that looked as if it might be in its second sec-ond winter at least < II should think you would have been afraid she was that burglar in disguise dis-guise I mean that Back Bay highwayman high-wayman interrupted the aunt Boston is not Cranforfl Imaginary Imagin-ary highwaymen In disguise are not a part of our literary traditions dear aunt returned the other woman firmly However I turned to the box office after looking at her in a haughty TeredeVere way that I thought would make her go instantly But no when I bought my ticket there she stood still with that feeble smile still wandering over her face I beg your pardon she began for the third time 411 should think you would have called for help exclaimed her aunt The idea of one woman speaking to another woman like that in Boston Why anybody would think ths was Paris andwe on the eve of the French revolution What did you do 7 Looked at her But she did not know who I am so she never quaijed She only said 1 beg your pardon I was going to offer you one of the best seats in the house free as I have I an wdra one and the lady who was I coming to join me at the door has evidently evi-dently been kept at home by the weather Aunt I came very neat smiling But I hope I Itept my self control as I passed on though I Jnow by the way that woman was laughing to herself that she felt that I came very nearoh shockingly near speaking speak-ing to her and saying thank you without with-out an introduction But thank heaven I resisted the temptation |