Show I INSTALMENT FIFTEEN r. SYNOPSIS The embarrassment of that disastrous night at stood a wall beta-ten Kitty and Wyn in their work at the until drowned it in mint in en after-work and then Wyn had hit inspiration for their trip to Pocono bach to those three blissful Kitty finds them a veritable t. Back in Wyn manages to have Kitty invited to his t home Shi is but the visit opens Kitty's eyes to the real difference between her own and IV r. s station in and Kitty determines to go visit Holly m Molly had written if 1 wouldn't come out and see she was so tickled about the job at She and Pat had a room together and could put mc up on a Pop seemed well enough so I could leave and Uncle and Auntie had been urging me I needed a chance to think about The world the way it is now brings lovers so close together they cramp each other's I mean florists' delivery you're always in Of course Myrtle knew something was going and I broke down and told her about You can't lie to colored they're just open wide for everything that's really she tell-in mc no When I Kitty Foyle sizes up the crowd of amateurs in Wyn's magazine as see you down in de lookin so female I know it aint just because we got scrapple fer Don't you let nobody cut corners on aint nobody too good fer Wyn and I went over in Jersey one we had so much to say to each other and of course we didn't get it He suggested I should come and work at the bank but I didn't like the There was another perfectly for me to get out of Wyn had been running me ragged about how he wanted to take me to the Assembly as his I don't know how he thought he was going to work it Even if he took it right up to the Committee of Mesdames it would only make you just can't do that sort of tiling to the Philadelphia not even if you're Wyn it hasn't been done since Benedict and it would just about crucify his mother who was one of the Mesdames I tried to explain all this to Wyn but he wouldn't listen to sense until I put it to him from my I said really being selfish though you don't know it You want to make a gesture of defiance and use me as the I guess most men would have been angry but he was sweet never thought of was all he you I ballroom of the Bellevue wasn't planned for I gestures of Nor you We settled all the magazine ac- B counts and closed the Wyn had given me a bonus of above salary and I didn't see why I shouldn't accept I knew he'd be miserable if I I used the money to buy some clothes but Wyn thought my Chicago idea was I wrote him a long letter as soon as I got settled in the I remember I was just choosing between Darling and Sweetest Boy in the World and deciding to use both when the train went through St Damned if there wasn't the old station wagon parked where he'd left Life does things like that to Why couldn't park somewhere and wait till he I was going to mail my letter when the train stopped and was on my way out to give it to the porter when all of a sudden I realized jt was I opened it again and wrote some I wasn't going to have him get that letter with a Harrisburg Not CHAPTER XIV it's pretty decent of me to keep riding the after what it did to me that Maybe what was it was the first time I ever went a long ride and nobody saw mc No one went with me the three steps of not even Mac or 1 guess 1 was running away from that don't get you When I finished that letter to Wyn I had the all what we called the Mortal I hadn't told him hardly Do men know about what turns over inside of you when a letter goes down the slot and you clank the slide to be sure it don't stick and gets a good I couldn't clank the porter but I gave him two bits and he said he'd mail it at I sat there and took it I was going round a bend as tough as the Oh I suppose I was only a kid but everybody is as grown up as the feelings they have at the time they feel It was crazy to be on that what was I there Everybody else had some good sensible reason for going somewhere but where am I going and I'm walking out on the Philadelphia I bet nobody else ever did I'm running away from the only home I it won't last long the old man is cracking Mac has a home and Myrtle has a home and what has I'm running away from Myrtle and the kitchen stove with a broken lid and the ice chest that don't latch tight and the little entry Why haven't got some place to stick to where we've lived for seven I'm not running away from anything but Darby Old St. Davids I didn't know people lived in places like I thought it was just frontage for the I could get off the train at Altoona and still get back to Griscom Street and cook Pop's Sure I I looked it up in the Kitty you're Listen all those people going looking so intentional and doing things on I bet every one of them has a soft spot in him poor Listen don't bear down too hard on that soft you'll break I love I'm a woman and 1 love Nothing can't ever take that 1 guess I went to sleep through Ohio and What would yon lie awake for when you get outside When the porter punched me there were the good old strings of Swift Refrigerator I had wired I picked that train so's we could have breakfast together before she went to the She met I could see her waving at the top of the little slope that goes up from the She what would we do without trains to meet each other at lust the same I didn't to see that one And by the time we got set to eggs and bacon at Fred Harvey's we were happy as I lute to admit it Molly's can't take it easy with a not even the way you can with a I guess you don't want People must get bored stiff when they've got only sex to interest thou each Wyn and I would always have something to talk he's so simple and sweet 1 could spend my whole life educating The beauty of he wouldn't know when I was doing it and I would always know when 1 was learning something from It's bad for a man to know how much he needs to I guess every woman is a schoolmistress in her heart That kicks a goal for- Mark We'd always have the hospital to think and the cripple But I couldn't ever give Mark what I gave I told him but he's so sure of He how do you know what you can give till you give He's Molly said It's good we're only But a woman hasn't got seven generations to find out what's Both the girls were all hopped up about their new Pat was in lingerie and Molly in Business was fine and Molly said everybody in Chi was laughing about the market crash in N. the Mi Idle West don't get jitters like comes from the Middle don't He's got his feet flat on the Pat said Chicago was the best town in the world for on account of the soot people have to change their underwear more Molly was all big-eye about teaching the furniture department good she had reference books out of the I have to laugh when I think back about the things White Collar Girls talk about when they live When you're working on 18 a week like those kids you don't go out evenings unless someone takes You sit home with what Pat called a Confederate that's lemon and wash stockings and iron a slip and buy the evening paper in turns and set the alarm clock so there'll be time to walk to work in the Nowadays when things are different with by myself and I even took to curling up with a sometimes I run on some philosophy about Women and Behaviorism and so forth and I wonder where those writers get their I guess no woman ever bothered to put them Men arc good about Telling the but pretty often some woman whispered it to him first While the girls were at the store I trouped round the and got a big kick out of Michigan Avenue and the Art When I was with Molly and Pat I kept pretty quiet about my own I didn't want Molly to get upset about my going off the deep end and I didn't know Pat well enough to come through with much inside stuff in front of though I never knew a redhead that wouldn't Somehow I didn't want to let Uncle and Auntie know right away that I was in I just wanted a few days in the no strings on Molly and I planned to go down to after the store closed on a Saturday and spend I was going to meet her at the store and we'd do some shopping before catching the I remember what a happy day l I didn't think enjoyed I took a bus up to Edgewater Beach and bummed wondered what happened at the Saddle and Cycle came back and had a in the tin tub and packed my I was coming- out of the house to go downtown and there was west of Just the few days I'd been away I'd got used to the way men dress in pressed very sharp and and provincial snap-brim and Wyn looked almost He'd gone from the train straight to Palmer's where he knew Molly worked and found out our Poor I was sorry for but I had to take that I wasn't going to let Molly down or disappoint Uncle and or even was counting on getting some dancing with you he tonight I've got to go to I'd love to take you along but it would mean too much was sort of he you It's the date of the I didn't know whether to laugh or so I guess I be Copyright 1939 by |