Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-09

You could have house in New York and q whole, real live castle in your own country if you liked, wouldn't care a rap how much you spent on clothes, and there isn't woman in America who's got better jewels than you should have. I'd see to that. Re sides, you could do what you choose for your own people. couldn't stint you. l want to be friends with them. l never talked like this to you before, but you see what l mean. And now, isn't what I've said any inducement|'
 "l wouldn't need any such induce ments if loved you," answered, but don't and cant, and somehow never have been able to believe that you real ly loved me-
 If that's the trouble you can make your mind easy. want you badly"
 Then I'm sorry. for I simply cant marry you. l should be miserable and so would you"
 "lll risk that. You're too much of an English rosebud to understand any thing about love What you must do is to trust others who know what you ought to want better than you do your sef-your mother, for instance. You'd like 10 please her and your sister and brother, wouldn't you? Well, they all want you to say yes 10 me"
 How do you know" broke out
 "I do know. You can ask kath if it isn't true"
 Il don't want to talk 10 her about it."
 You needn't if you'll only be good girl and do what everybody expects you to do. Come now, do say yes, and let's be happy
 That did make me furious.
 Any one would think was a naughty child and you were some kind of medicine the whole family was wait ing for me to take" exclaimed. Its wonder you don't get out your watch and give me five minutes to do it in"
 His eyes began 10 sparkle with anger I believe he would have liked to box my ears. and l know I could have boxed his.
 ''I thought English girls were brought up to be scnsible,' said he, and amia- ble"
 T cant help what you thought" I answered rudely, for l was getting desperate. You've no right to keep me here like this, and it won't do you bit of good. for if you stand there till we're both In our second child hood l won't change my mind You ought to know that now, Mir. Parker Please lot me go'
 He didn't move
 If you don't I'll scream at the top of my lungs" I said. And he must have seen that 1 meant it, for he flung open the door with a slam. and I swept past him with my nose in the air, trying to look like mother.
 1 didn't see him again till it was time to go home. Then he drove back with Mrs. Ess Kay and me 10 the and didn't open his mouth once on the way, which was wonderful for him and seemed somehow ominous.
 l had been too angry and excited after that scene of ours to feel unhap. py or to worry much about what might come next but that drive. short as it was, with Potter freezingly silent and Mrs. Ess Kay alarmingly polite, made me feel that the end had come I was sure she had been told by her brother what an obstinate, ungrateful girl I was. and I had guilty sinking of the heart as if I really had been both. There was no Sally to protect me now, no one to advise me what tc do, and there was a big lump in my throat as 1 said good night and went to my own room.
 l hadn't been there long when there came a knock at he door, the same determined kind of inexorable knock which mother gives when I've been found out in something which she thinks it her duty to make me sorry for.
 I'd locked the door and would have liked to make some excuse not to oper it, but it was Mrs. Ess Rays door and Mrs. Ess Rays room just as much as it was Mrs. Ess Rays brother I had refused.
 She sailed in all in black. like an executioner, though. of course, execu tioners don't go down into history wearing chiffon trimmed with jet
 My dear Betty" said she, subsdns into large armchair, "I want to have serious talk with you.'
 Ii would harn hann sturnid tlretn1,d