Show kathleen norris S says you cant get back what you never had bell features feature 00 01 am va I 1 T clay li is sale safe irom from troubles trouble he will have or has had no difficulty in explaining to his wile wife that one of 01 the office girls is cracked about him hidi fly by KATHLEEN NORRIS TOVE E does not last not all E by itself love all by it self is like a bottle of pure rich milk leave it alone for a few days and what have you A bottle half filled with sour curds and ha half of evil smelling water but mix milk with flour ceab yeast butter salt bait and you have the fine bread that is indispensable to th the e growing bodies ot of boys and girls unless you mix love with service companionship mutual jinter interests ests mutual ambitions honor honesty find and common sense you have the bitterest draught in me life to drink it wont stand alone no matter how deliriously deliciously exciting and satisfying it is in the beginning nothing la is so hard on a woman as the grand passion that peters out into loneliness bewilderment shame crushed pride and vanished illusion especially if that grand passion is illicit and it usually is the sweeping breathtaking breath taking absorbing sor bing dizzying type ot of loving rarely comes into your life by the pleasant well worn trail of friendship engagement marriage there again a great many elements enter to stabilize matters matteri getting clothes kitchen showers louse house hunting acknowledging presents calling on jims people making arrangements tor for bridesmaids church music reception all these things are delightful in themselves and they help make a girl feel that she be really la Is getting married but they dont go hand band ln in hand with the he mad we etnes the agony agon yand and joy ot of love completely unsupported by material everyday practical ucal common sense loves levis her boss bosa take evelyn peters affair for or example evelyn la Is an office worker of 28 she writes me that she has loved clay for or seven years clay is 40 he Is I 1 her office boss how shall I 1 know if he no long er cares writes evelyn Th there theres ereIs is rio no question of this being the real thing for or it hassur has survived every possible difficulty and handicap in the first place clay Is marr married and although he no long er loves lovel or even even likes his wile wife they have a daug daughter liter ot of 12 whom h he adores four years ago clay went to officers officer camp emerging a captain I 1 was intensely proud of him even though the long separation was bard on us both up to this time I 1 had held our friendship to strictly platonio platonic lines but the pressure ol of war tragedies end and partings made me feel I 1 could refuse him nothing and during the first war year when he was in various american camps we managed to meet very often i far from being ashamed of having surrendered I 1 was proud of his love when he finally sailed mailed for south seas duty it was with the implicit promise that when he returned he would make our relationship legitimate he has now been home seven weeks and I 1 count bount the days in growing uneasiness I 1 dont doubt his bis love but whit what is keeping us apart it may be that be is going to kur bur prise me by arriving suddenly to announce hi bis s freedom but so far I 1 have had only one unsatisfactory telephone bona call which terminated with his bis casual s ual promise see you soon oon but on that occasion his wife may have been within hea hearing ring J ue became a captain during the war 1 I took a much finer position in a nearby town which L I 1 if still till hold this of courte course makes me less accessible mutual trust I 1 our affair was by no means trivial it was entered upon with a deep sense of mutual trust but it was not supported naturally by any bec recognition tion from or his or our friends nor any normal opportunity tor for meeting it was only when he could get away tor for brief leave often then to discover that between his far family allys claims and mine we had but a few stolen hours together now awant I 1 want it openly admitted I 1 want to take my place beside him without this prospect life would be insupportable to me shall I 1 call on him in his office write requesting a talk or go see his wife who Is six years older than he be and tell her frankly how matters are that he is as wretched as I 1 am under this arrangement I 1 am as sure as I 1 am of my own feeling you arkan mean as you wish you were of your own feeling evelyn you know very well in your heart that this affair Is cold cold as the iceland snows mows clay is safe from trouble he be will have or has had no difficulty in explaining to his elderly wife that one of the office girls Is cracked about him I 1 would bet even money although far from a betting woman that there Is another woman not in the cifes place but in yours he and his wife may have had bad their upset times but she will prove giove a fine buffer between him and any disturbance you can create there Is only one piece of advice for you it is contained in two forceful words forget it |