Show 0 p po o Q by tb N e Mary Stirs Me to Jealousy Jealousy Spurs Me to Action How does Bob happen to be wandering wandering wandering wan wan- dering around Central park parl with Katherine latherine Miller I 1 turned turned on Mary abruptly perceIvIng perceiving perceiving per per- for the first time that she had kept me talking Just to help me control my feelings until my husband and Miss Miller should disappear In Inthe inthe inthe the restaurant Mary merely sh shook k her head but what she said had In a way a direct bearing on n my question He Ie IS magnificent I dont don't wonder wonder wonder won won- der youre you're so BO crazy about him Why Jane my my dear le is the the superb detached detached- calm kind of ofa husband who husband who always makes a wife madly Jealous My eyes followed Bob down the wistaria draped pergola in front of the pa pavilion I Im I'm Im I'm not not Jeal jealous jeal-jealous Jealous I Im I'm Im I'm only r brok broken brok-broken broken hearted I sobbed Mary shrugged her shoulders even while white she linked her arm in mine Youre not quite Jealous enough you mean When you are are you'll you'll act I felt fet almost like hugging Mary In that sentence she had taught me mea a lesson I 1 had been too patient It was time for me to shape events myself even if an emotion as hateful as Jealousy were required to animate me Hitherto I had let the specialists and the family have their own way about Bobs Bob's cure cure and and they had failed I had taken It for granted that my own notions about him were silly feminine childish And yet In my own heart never once did I doubt that I alone could make Bob well I If I could win Bobs Bob's attention to toI myself I 1 could release his brain from I its burden and his heart from its pain Mary Im I'm Jealous enough at least to suit even you I 1 said I think I started to show you New NewYork NewYork York didn't I I Well it will take about twenty days to do It I 1 guess you'll have to do the other nineteen days alone But But youre but youre you're not for forgetting about the string of pearls are you Jane Im forgetting everything for straight to Bob awhile except that I 1 cannot go Instead I 1 went straight to Bobs Bob's mother and told her about lt the meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing in the park parl Dear child I suppose suppose- it was in inevitable inevitable in- in In-I In evitable that you two should pass like strangers she sighed Bob has been In town my dear as long as we have He was brought here for special observation I 1 have visited him every day I 1 said to myself S Sd So that is why I have been free to give my time to toMary's tot Mary's Marys t rys diving lessons sons And nd I might t tI have visited Bob too My tears welled over and spotted Mothers Mother's new I georgette georg-ette crepe But Mother dIdn't mind She was was crying also Bob looks so badly she said We Ve are all discouraged We thought wed we'd better not let you know know for for awhile Cant we have him just hIm Just as he Is down down at the shore with us Mother dear I 1 exclaimed eagerly A AS soon as his discharge papers arrive arrIve and and his father says that willbe will wll willbe I be in a few days days we we can have him child anywhere my anywhere my Mother paused as she said anywhere anywhere anywhere any where I wondered If the word wore seemed ominous to her her her-as as it did to me To be continued |