The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-18

with eyes of-well, not indifference
| because | am really rather interested
in you. You strike me as a young per-
son l could learn to like. / am only
slightly acquainted with you, so ]
sound your intellectual depth cautious
ly beginning with the customary me-
| Neurological observation: What are
your views on the weather."
Alicia-Tm beginning to like you bet
ter now. 1t has been deliciously cool
| to-day hasn't it?"
| lawfully"
| Alicia-"Oh, I'm reading a new book
| "A Clustering Grief Have you read It
JOHNNY glanced through 1t. Guy
! Harrington Lynenes last, isn't it? ]
thought he ought to have done better
with that name of his. Perhaps II
made me expect too much, but when /
see that kind of an awe-inspiring, Sec
tional cognomen on the title page of a
book, / am naturally inclined to think
that the author is some"
"Alicia-"Then you didn't like the
book?"
Johnny-"On the contrary, 1 thought
1t was quite sweet. I was impressed
with the dignity of the love passages.
/ forgot, though, we weren't to men,
ton anything of that kind. The philos-
ophy of Jerome Peterson struck me as
erson says: All love is mathematical
ly just, as much as the two sides Of
on algebrais equation There / go
again."
Alicia-"Oh. go on. This is perfectly
lovely. You don't know how am en-
joying 1t. What were you going to say
about the love passages?"
Johnny-"You're sure you don't
mind?"
Alicia-"oh, no. That's quite imper-
sonal."
Johnny-"There's never anything
impersonal in the discussion of love.
We speak from the depth of our own
experience or feeling. Now my feel
ing for YOU"
Alicia-"Well?"
Johnny-'I wasn't to speak about 1t.
Margaret's firm reliance in the innate
sanity of society in spite of hypochon-
driacal--"
Alicia-"Johnny"
Johnny-"Well?"
Alicia-"Tell me about your feeling
for me-"
Johnny-'T can't sitting over here.
You don't want to hear about them,
any way. You want me to analyze the
Whichness of the What and the Hence
ness of the Gone. What you are pin
ing for is a little disquisition on the
primary principles of political economy
with a dash of esorteric Buddhism con-
trasted with applied Christianity, and
the system Of approximations you
want me to light the gas"
Alicia-"Well, you may, II you like"
Johnny-"Which?"
Alicia-"Light the gas and talk about
those absurd approximations and hy-
pochondriacs and things"
Johnny-"What's the matter, ALI
cia?"
Alicia-"Oh, nothing. What makes
you think there's anything the matter?
Aren't you going to light that gas?"
Johnny-"Not IL 1 can help it. Are
you so anxious to have it lit?"
(IIe goes over to the chair and leans
on the back of it,
Johnny-"Must 1 light it?"
Alicia-"Oh, l guess not, If you don't
want to-"
Johnny-"And do you want me to tell
you about my feeling for your"
Alicia-"Ye-es, IL you like"
Johnny-"And not talk sensibly?"
Alicia-"You know very well that
you can't"
Johnny-"That's dead right. Now,
I'm going to tell you something. Put
your head over this way, for I've got to
whisper it."
(The communication takes some lit
tie time, and 1t is not all one-sided,
for there are murmuring responses.)
Johnny kind of a notion was
It to get into your head anyway"
Alicia-"T wanted-I thought 1t
would be nice to see you sitting there
--as you used to. And l should imagine
that we weFe-that we weren't engage
ed or anything. And then I could think
that 1 knew-you cared for me and by
and by you would tell me so, and it
would be all over again and IL was so
-so-dont' you understand, Johnny?"