Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-16
CHAPTER VIM.

Three days afterward Ethel called on
Dora Stanhope at the Savoy. She found
her alone, and she had evidently been cry
in. Indeed, she frankly admitted the fact.
declaring that she had been $50 bored
and so homesick, that she believed she had
cried her beauty away" She glanced at
Ethers radiant face and neat fresh toilet
with envy, and added. 81 am SO glad to see
you, Ethel. But was sure that you would
come as soon as you knew wanted you. :"
"Oh, indeed, Dora, you must not make
yourself too sure of such a thing as thatl
really came to London to get some new
gowns. 1 have been shopping all morn
ing
Il thought you had come in answer to my
letter. 1 was expecting you. That Is the
reason 1 did not go out with BASIL
Don't you expect little too much, Dora?
have a great many interests and du-
ties
when girl marries she is supposed
please don't talk nonsense. Basil does
not take the place of every one and every
thing else. think we are often very tired
OF each other This morning, when ] was
telling him what trouble l had with my
maid. Julia, he actually yawned He tried
to smother the yawn, but he could not ana
of course the honeymoon is over when your
bridegroom yawns in your face while you
are telling him your troubles
Il should think you would be glad 1t was
over. OF all the words In the English Ian
guage honeymoon is the most ridiculous
and imbecile."
Il suppose when you get married you will
take honeymoon.
II shall have more sense and more self
ishness A girl could hardly enter a new
life through medium more trying. l am
sure 1t would need long-tested affections
and the sweetest of tempers to make it en-
durable"
ir,oaO Gin vufa y,,aa
II mean that all travelling just after mar
riage is great blunder. Travelling makes
the sunniest disposition hasty and peevish
for women don't love changes men do
Not one In thousand is seen at her best
while travelling, and the majority are seen
at their very worst. Then there is the dis
comfort and desoIation of European no.
tels-their mysterious methods and hours,
and the ways of foreigners, which are not
as our ways
Don't talk of them, Ethel. They are
dreadful places, and such queer people.
add to these troubles ignorance of Ian
guage and coinage, the utter WEAKNESS OF
railway travel, the plague of customs, the
trunk that won't pack, the trains that won't
wait, the tiFesome sightseeing, the climatic
irritability, broiling suns. headaches. loneli,
ness, fretfulness-consequent the pittful
boredom of the new husband.
ETHEL, what you say is certainly too
true. / am weary to death of 1t all. /
want to be at Newport with mother. who
Basil is very nice to me, and yet there have
been little tiffs and struggles-Very gentle
ones-for the mastery, which he Is not go
ing to get. Today he wanted me to go with
him and Canon Shackleton to see something
or other about the poor of London. would
not do 1t. am so lonely, Ethel, want to
see some one. / feel fit to cry all the time.
1 like Basil best of any one In the world,
But"
But in the solitude of a honeymoon
among strangers you find out that the
person you like best in the world can bore
you as badly as the person you don't IKE
at all Is that so?"
Exactly. Just fancy If we were among
our friends at Newport. l should have
some pleasure In dressing and looking
lovely Why should 1 dress here? There
is no one to see me.
Basil
'aOf course, but Basil spends all the time
in visiting cathedrals and clergymen. If we
go out, it is to see something about the
poor or about schools and such like. We
were not in London two hours until he was
off to Westminster Abbey, and l didn't care
q cent about the old place. He says l must
not ask him to go to theaters, but histori-
cal old houses don't interest me at all.
What does 1t matter If Cromwell slept in
q certain ancient shabby room? And as
for all the palaces have seen, my fathers
house is a great deal handsomer, and more
convenient, and more comfortable, and
wish I were there. hate Europe, and Eng
land I hate worst of ALL
'eYou have not seen England. We are
all enraptured with its beauty and its old
houses and pleasant life
"You are among friends-at home, as it
WERE / have heard all about Rawdon
court Fred Mostyn told me. He is going
to buy it
''When?'
Some time this fall. Then next year he