Show i Confessions Confession 1 Of a Bride 1 Bob Brings Me News Which Stops My My Heart With Surprise I Bob entered the wistaria draped I pergola at the end of the blue garden i and came toward me with his long I I easy pasy stride stride and and I 1 started to to o run to greet him pim as a loving bride brid ought to I greet her husband I 1 am always alwa's forgetting forgetting for for- for I getting that Bob has forgotten me I Fortunately the pergola was long and before I 1 regained my c composure I j Bob reached my side i And then we wo were both botha a little embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed em em- Just as we used to be I l j when wo first discovered that we were falling in love when neither of ofus ofus us was quite sure sura of the other Bob wished to talk to me ho he had said and of course I had concluded exactly as an if I 1 were in my seventeenth OJ year that he must want to see mo for purely personal and sentimental reasons that he was seizing o o ocI oc- oc I making making-a a chance to talk talle to me abou about i nothing in the famous old way of a aman aman man with a maid since Cupid first firstI I stalked staled his prey I A long silence followed Bobs Bob's arrival jl I and embarrassed me considerably I before Bob finally spoke I Im sorry I kept you waiting Miss MissI I Miller had an engagement with my 1 I And Chrys I Chrys-I I mean Miss Lorimer Lorimer- was late late and and you couldn't leave Miss MissI ss I Miller until your Sister arrived I finished his apology for him Im knowing well how grateful he would be to me i Exactly And its it's of my sisters sister's I affairs that I 1 wish to speak She's going to Spain Youve You've heard of course I I I nodded I Miss Misa Miller 1 is planning to go with 1 I her They're discussing the trip today toi to- to i i day 1 I 1 nodded again while my poor heart I stood still It had been part of the i Lorimer plan to have Bob go to Spain I i I with Chrys Chryst And because he was wasI I going Katherine Miller wanted tomake to tomake I make the trip And I his wife I II wasn't in a position to interfere I 1 shrugged my shoulders In disgust I I I couldn't help doing that that and and Bob BobI I misconstrued my meaning and said Of course that doesn't interest you And I 1 had to keep right on pretending pretending pre pre- I tending that the most Important news Jin in the world didn't interest me i Never had a bride been placed in such sucha I a wretched position I felt sure Still sun StillI 1 I resolved to seize the Joy of the I moment which was being alone with i I my own most adorable husband in a aI garden of blue blossoms I I The point is that neither my father nor I 1 can see any sense in letting I Chrys go off eff to Spain until she will I acknowledge that her husband is isI I dead I I I r I understand She told me herself I i about the ouija board message I explained I Chr Chrys s Is plain daffy I daffy I mean she is rather obstinate about it Bob admitted ad ad- Now you QU were the last lat I person to see the man who went into the sea in the divers diver's dress just before the explosion You made an affidavit I in New York that the person was j I Hamilton Hamilton- Please do not consider consider con con- sider me impertinent if I ask about I I your acquaintanceship with What ground had you OU for being so I positive I 1 had to finger my bobbed black wig wig to get myself into the right re relationship re- re re-I re I to events before I 1 could i SP speak k I knew new Dr well wen because 11 II I I worked in his office for tor a time time time- I i I before I 1 came to work worle for for Mr Ir Lorimer Lori Lori- mer I 1 see see Bob went on absently as if if after all that wasn't the main topic of conversation Then can you OU tell me how many diving suits were made after invention Only two I spoke positively The original was made to fit Tiny Goff A copy was made for a little dancing girl I Bob shook his head I You must be mistaken he said Otherwise how could I 1 a third one in the shack on the beach To be continued I II |