Show i Confessions I Of a Bride Katherine Miller Plays an Age Old Card in Her Letter to My Husband Sometimes I think that the fools tools are the only really clever people In the world They smash through the re resistance resistance resistance re- re of all the tho sensitive persons about them them and and so they prevail They get their own way which is the only thing they care about by wearing down the patience of the Intelligent ent people upon uon whom they depend Fortunate Fortunate For lor Is the family which Isn't ruled by its weakest member Katherine Miller belonged to the ruling class Had she been a girl of ot otI I average common sense the worry over I i I my husbands husband's engagement to her would have ended with his extremely I nice letter of ot explanation and apology After writing it of ot course there was nothing more for Bob to do I It lt was several days before Miss Miller l decided what she would do Her verdict came in the shape of a letter letter- an elegantly written epistle A messenger mesI messenger mes mes- I handed it to Bob as he left the house one afternoon Bob might have hae guessed then that it was a strictly personal communication and he might l I easily have concealed It from me in instead instead instead in- in stead of ot turning around as he did I and marching back to the library with it It was of at ominous import I concluded concluded con con- as I 1 watched him I could tell by his expression that he was astonished astonished aston aston- annoyed perhaps a little flattered flattered flat flat- and in the end certainly dumbfounded dumb dumb- founded Ho folded it up and sat absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- in thought a long time after he had finished it He lie forgot me completely Ho He was thinking of another woman woman right right under under un un- I der my eyes and eyes and I was almost a a. brand new bride In spite of my I promise never to be jealous jealous never never I never never never-a a hot wave of anger spread over me I rose to leave the room Then Bob Dab came out of his trance and noticed me It Isn't the kind of ot a letter a man ought to show he explained without waiting for my question Do you jou mean that a husband Is justified in keep tog a particularly doubtful communication away from his wife wile I said in a tone I intended to make malce very ery sarcastic Certainly Ive I've right to a judge judge judge- I a right to Judge judge judge- But Its It's not the kind of ot a letter a aV aman woman V man ought to write Jane Therefore Therefore There There- fore you ought not to read it It ItOh Oh la la la la la She knew perfectly well Vell that she could bank on your chivalry chiv chiv- alry But both for your saks sake and hers hers hers- Oh never mind me But spare her I beg of you Why Vh Jane My love How unlike yourself Theoretically Im I'm perfectly I willing to let you read any letter I receive You know that Jane Theoretically I dont don't care a postage stamp what's In your mall mail You know that tha t. t Bob I I Practically Jane I would feel like a cad to hand this thing over to you you Dont then Practically Practically- I took Ithe the Ic letter from him and unfolded itI it I thought I heard Bob chuckle but I 1 wouldn't look at him Sometimes I think he ho delights In me most when I 1 act like a mischievous child when child when I have hae the utmost contempt for my own conduct Before I 1 had started to read Bobs Bob's hand closed d over mine Dont darling he begged Im I beginning to think the girl Isn't quite I Ishall shall shall I say say not not quite normal I Im lm not an Innocent child And Andl theres there's nd reason on earth why I shouldn't know what that girl has seen fit to write to my husband I II snapped I To be continued I |