The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-02-08
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MOTHER WAVERLY is GOING
TO HONEYMOON WITH
MOLLIE AFTER ALL

Mother Waverly, or Mrs, Trent
as she now must be called, has
made me, in the past, angry and
annoyed. She has appealed to
my sympathy and even pity at
times, but she never furnished
me with a laugh until this morn
ing when l received a letter from
her from London. What do you
think, little book, the belated
honeymooners are on the trail of
Mollie and Chad.
| just sat down and laughed
as l saw in imagination Mollie's
face when they walk in on them
at Florence. l am afraid that
Mollie's honeymoon was too near
ly perfect, little book.
Gone will be all her romantic
incoming about Florence and the
other Italian cities as soon as
Mrs. Trent gets on the job. She
| writes me,
| MY dear Margaret"
Notice the formal Margaret,
little book. No one has called
me Margaret since Dick neck
named ME Margie in the first
days of our married life, but L
suppose Mrs. Trent, telling that
she had very formal message to
impart, decided to begin it form
ally.)
Il expect you know that l have
at last been persuaded by Mr..
Trent to marry him. | wrote a
letter announcing my marriage
to Mr.. Trent to Dick and ad.
dressed it to his office, and he
probably told you.
You may think it rather
queer, Margaret, that l, who in
sisted upon Mollie and Dick hav-
ing public weddings should take
the same momentous step with
out telling anyone about it. felt
in my case it was quite different.
In the first place, both Mr.. Trent
and myself had been married be-
fore, and both were at least mid.
dle-aged."
q need not call your attention,
little book, to the fact that Moth
er Waverly is at least So, but
she is an extremely good looking
woman at that, / think Mr.. Trent
Is slightly younger but he looks
her age.)
Both Mr.. Trent and were
averse to the gossip a large we'd
ding would start, and so we de-
cided the best thing was to slip
away quietly and let the an
nouncement come after we had
started abroad.
of course | can never expect
again that wonderful JOY that
came to me with the marriage of
my youth, with my first love, but
Mr.. Trent is a splendid compan-
ion, and l hope you will never
know, my dear, the loneliness
that comes to a woman when,
after years OF happy married life
after her children have mar
ried and have homes and inter-
ests OF their owns left alone. |
There is something in the
telling of ownership which | be-
i1eve every woman as we'll as
every man has, who has been
married many years. While IL
loved your father Waverly very
much, even l did not realize the
terrible solitariness of a widow.
You lose a part of yourself.
something with which you have
grown SO familiar that you per-
maps have not realized its bless
ing any more than you do that
OF your hands or fete,-but when
1t is gone l believe the sense of
loss is quite as great as though
you had lost a physical part of
yourself.
Mr.. Trent and I have talked
this matter over many times, and
agreed upon it perfectly"
And this is where the laugh
came in, little book just could |
not help picturing Mother Waver-
ly posing as a wooden leg to Mr..
Trent. l am a little ashamed of
the idea, but 1t would come into
my head, and l could not help
laughing over it.
And, oh, little book, certainly
smile seldom and laugh less now
adays. 1t just seems as though |
/ did not have one ray of light in |
regard to my own affairs.
From Dicks last letter I know
he, too, is unhappy-very unhap-
py-I presume l should at least
tell him l will forgive him and
live with him as his wife or else
let him go forever. But up to
this moment / can do neither. III
almost seems to me that | am
hoping that Dick will stay away a i
long time, at least until get
used to the thought of his per-
fidy. Eliene's way was a fine
one. To go to some other city
for a year or two while Harry
travelled abroad. But Dick and 1
are not rich enough to do that:
we must plod along together, and
adjust our difficulties as we go.
am almost persuaded to ask
Mrs. Selwin what she would do ifl
she were me. I don't trust my
own judgment in this. / have too
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