| Show I Confessions ns Of a Bride CHAPTER It Seems Impossible For Me to Follow Marys Mary's And Advice Then Dr Appears If you'll only just scream scream-or throw something advised advised Mary Thomas as she leaned over my shakIng shaking shak- shak Ing figure But it if you go on this way much longer just quivering without making a soun sound you'll develop de- de pleurisy or something Oh my dear My dear Please do stop she pleaded Im horrid I know Ungrateful Selfish I wailed But your advice Is no good Mary 1 No good at all I Ican Ican can never never make Bob woo me over again If If I felt that sure and if it was m me- me Mary stopped for emphasis not to correct her grammar If it was me-I'd me play play-at being being another another girl I stopped my crying and sat up How I asked Id lose myself Then Id I'd meet Mr Robert Lorimer under another name Then Id I'd watch things happen 1 You must have great faith in predestination predestination pre pre- destination Mary Iary Thomas A lot mo-e mo than I have Do you actually believe that theres there's one perfect love affair and one only in the lives of most women and men I do honestly think that if any man had a chance to marry over again lie he would probably choose the very wife he picked the first time if he had a chance Mary insisted Yell Well I do not I trade made the statement statement state state- ment positively I know Inow several t types pes of girls who could snitch my Bob away from me once he is normal once he gets to thinking about women and love Instead or of politics and ECOnomics ECO eco- Better beat em to it it as Ive I've said before was Marys Mary's terse comment But not as Jane Lorimer nor as Jane Ames I continued in my positive tI tive ve vein Dont Don't de decide ide that now now too tired to think straight Why you haven't had a minutes minute's sleep since night before last Go right up to bed Ill I'll send up your Jour dinner And then go to sleep And Many reached outher out outher her pretty hand and gave my fingers a quick pressure of sympathy as I passed her I was too tired to eat and too tired to sleep By 9 o'clock I was too tired to stay a in bed I threw h my kimono i salt around o me and sat down at the window win win- I dow which faced the moonlit bou boule- boule van vard I raised the shade just in time timeto to see Dr Hamilton roadster turn the corner It stopped in front of Mary Iary Thomas Thomas' terrace Oh la la a I 1 said under my breath as Dr mounted the steps and I rang the bell Then I heard him speak of TIny Marys Mary's compact six six- room suite has walls wall like sounding boards I closed and locked my door went back to bed and pulled the covers j i jo o over my years ears I ut my poor brain brain was s wound up uptight uptight tight and it kept whirring and whirring whir whir- ring to the effect that I didn't want Hamilton to make love to me I had told myself that same thing five hundred times in the last six months nevertheless it made me perfectly furious to have him pose as my devoted de- de voted cavalier while he was was at the same time the familiar friend of Mary Thomas Finally it occurred to me that Dr was Daddy Lorimers Lorimer's best friend as well as his medical adviser and that he might call on Mary for business not social socia reasons But I found small comfort in the logic To be continuEd |
