The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-28
n COMMON
OCCURRENCE
BY META sYRETT.

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meat for 1unchi instead of plain bread
and butter now?"
ooh, l don't know. She does some
typewriting in an Office. or something of
that kind. / don't know how that sort
of thing pays"
81 do" said Philip.
''Weil. it can't be such very bad pay,
after ALL she argued, for she has man
aged to furnish two rooms out OF 1t.
They are quite pretty, and there's no
art muslin about All her things are
good. 1 can't think how she affords
them"
.sTea and toast for breakfast, buns
and milk for lunch, no dinner, muir
INJURED her husband
well, and isn't that very stupid? 2" re-
joined Mrs. Wetherby, triunphantly.
why not have good meals to keep up
her strength"
"For what? To write business letters
all day, and to come back to the wax
flowers, shiny Bibles, and chromolitho-
graphs of the cheap furnished apartment
in the evening
Didn't | say you were exactly like
Avice?" she asked him.
MY dear. | am crushed. Neverthe-
less, you have not gained your point,
Miss Seagrave and | may have started
fair along the path that leads to i'm
! beeility and the stars. She is still star
gazing, but | only give them an occa-
sional furtive glance, and Immediately
drop my eyes to the level of the dining
room lamp, beneath which is usually
spread the most excellent dinner"
| sThis is the best cook we've had for
long while" Gertrude agreed. i
/ thought the soup tonight was delicious.
But ] was going to tell YOU little plan
OF mine about Avice. 1t would be such
| good thing to get her married. would
MT it? And / was thinking the other
dav how we'll she would suit Colonel
Ridley He wants wife, | know ana
| he's not very particular about money.
| Mrs. Ridley has been dead five or SIX
wears now. and the children are grow
ing up. Why, Daisy must be nearly
seventeeni He ought to have Wife.
I hat house of his is shockingly neglect
T ed: and then Daisy needs some one to
take her out, and"
what he appears to REQUIRE IS
chaperone- lousekeeper, isn't it I"
SWELL If you care to express 1t so
coarselv, 1 suppose it is. At any rate,
hundreds of girls would jump at the
chance" 90
/ q don't think Miss Seag1ave IS one
of them" -
! have Just been explaining to me at great
length that she lives on cocoa and potted
meat, or something
Mot potted meat. She renowned
that with the drawing certificates, II you
remember.
well, tea and toast, then. No won o,
der she has lost her complexion! She
is not SO very young; she Is year oide'
than | am"
"And YOU look one-and-twenty.
"Recarse J can afford to dress well
Ayice cant, ard she looks her age
Colonel Ridley is an exceedingly KIND
: good fellow"
@And ne thinks shilling. detective
s+orv the finest work Of art in the Ian
sWelI. so do great many people J
like them myself Besides, you don.
really think any woman exists so toollsi
as to throw away the chance of a gooe
home because of difference OF oplnlol
about asnovel y e..u
"To do them justice, not many. Still
: I have known cases CT impending matr1
tnony which were averted by the dis
: covery that one of the contracting par
ties preferred IkitI " itAe''
: at is Impossible to argue with you
Philip: you are always SO frivolous
; She got up and began to put away tn
paper and envelopes in her writing
: table. AT any rate, | have invite,
t Colonel Ridley for the 18th, and shal
make point of introducing him t
: Ayice. have often talked TO him abou
her. and praised her Nothing may com
r of it. of course. In all probability noth
< ing will. but | shall have the satlstactlol
: of feeling that have done all can TO
the girl She locked her writing-taDif
Good night" she said. as she passe
$ him. -
e Gertrude. you are an angel, SAID ne
husband, laughing. as ne opened the 400
S for her.
t Twilight was falling next day whe
Avice. on returnino from her oftlc'
found Mrs. Wetherby's invitation car
{; on the nantelpiece of her sitting-roon
: Her thoughts went back. as they ha
t often done through the week, to Ie
cent conversation with Philip Wethero
at the Crosshelds' party. She had bee
e interested. unusually reused, by what
had said. And yet their talk had bee
: of mere generalities growing out OF N