| Show i A 1 her convenient i excuse j 11 1 it a awfully sweet of you to thin thinie of it ami and I 1 shoals toye love to 9 go 0 it I 1 were well said mrs duckley buckley over the tele phone oh no nothing bartous but I 1 don t eel feel quite able to go out ob fk yes I 1 shall ba be all right tn in a duy dur or to thank you so much for me good by mrs buckley hung up the receiver i with sight otrell ot relief et glad 1 had the presence of mind to decline ab he a sa said tn t herself 1 I dont care at all for forr a drive irive with mra mrs drake besides Da baldes ldes with tho the Ilen dersons coming to dinner tonight rye got too much to dc this afternoon to warte barte time going the park behind her old elow coach horses two boure hours later mrs duckley buckley wae was assisting slating as the cook in the manufacture a of f a wonder wonderfully full y comp complicated lie at a d do deebert baert when her husband buret burst into the loolu with an anxious frown on his hi brow ive been looking all through the tho house for you nan he bald said a little impatiently 1 I expect to find you in th the A kit kitchen ch en I 1 why not how row dad you happen to come home so early homr tom 1 I beard heard you were ill jill 1111 why im not a bit so sep I 1 eee see dut but I 1 met drake at lunch aid nud he told me you were so lck nick you yolk 1 t go out for a drive with hie ble difo I 1 naturally thought you taa lad 4 some sudden attack and pa one bad had had sense enough to call me upeo opeo I 1 rushed home yea poor old dear mn blip but buckley kley indulgently as she ehe continued to whip cream 1 I had tic noides 1 idea you were to easily alar alarmed meV any one would bava have been alart alarmed ned by what drake aid said how row in the world did he ever get the idea that you were sick mr mrs drake telephoned me we this morning asking me to go driving kind as I 1 feel like it I 1 sad I 1 well I 1 oh inars it ut why you juet just ay toy you feel feet ilka like it you know you ey euch such thing things tom 11 well I 1 rather think JL L cn how ever eve since 1 your youra t hii danger ill console connote altha ut tie Us golf the reet rest of at the afternoon very well but come bom home ea carire rIre you know the hender P mr mrs back buck ley ceased peaking speaking as the door closed none too gently behind her husband any one would think she ba smilingly muns mud d that tom ZA waa disappointed bicaise im not bick sick it at after an busy buor aft mra mrs duckley buckley WM wom dressed aad and awaiting her bar husband and why in the world botet tom to comer ehe she retted fretted hell nell surely keep dinner waiting while hee hes changing clia nging hie his clothes at seven en 0 cisyk neither he nor the expected guesta guests hd bim arrived and mrs mra duckley buckley tired ad nervous walked the floor of her flower bedecked rooms well here you are at tasa she he cried as an nuckley appeared at 73 0 nuckley be whit what detained ad you ive beba a a almost I 1 wild mild 1 I didn dian t suppose worry man nan you see we started a foursome foura ome eo so late that dui but you knew you had to dreu dress for dinner tom dasa for dinner yes of course you know an well ell as I 1 d do that the are coming I 1 cant understand why go 0 o la lato 0 its inexcusable ill think twice before I 1 invite them aga agate lall they should have been neen here japour ago but nan nao they arent coming arent arant coming what make you think not cominar com lne well you after I 1 left drake today I 1 ran into henderson and I 1 him I 1 vaa iras hurring hum ing home because you were ill he ite said hed telephone ate wife that the dinner WAR was off it waa was thoughtful of him ftc t oh veryl very I 1 mra mrs buckley buckler spoke with much sarcasm it would hav have been very of 0 you to have mentioned to me that the were not taming perhaps you think fl I 1 like to work ill day getting up a dinner lor for people who arent coming co Balag 3 for a moment buckley looked ft 4 lit I 1 lr he tle crestfallen then making a etro egl he bald said boldly dut but wy 4 dear girl I 1 waa was so delighted to and you really eick sick that the of relief drove every other thought out of my toy head i except the thought of golt golf again duckley buckley looked nonplused ed but in an 11 eel at al lied v k I 1 1 hang it all nan we have ft n had this muddle if you bad tom tow mm J drake the truth in the grot pace i 1 I can promise you one thom thomaj as an dear I 1 wont indulge in another taj BI fabrication very eoon soon it I 1 think there theres the slightest ot of itsu ita falling into your clumsy keeping kee i well nell then truth Is 14 once pages if fart i umi thant laughed tom and row raw company dinner wont be deni deal for im rm ravenous |
