New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-05-11

""''h NcH, caught DelnR ma
about Rose from him. 1t all depends
you see, on whether Rose is going t,
be Il hit this winter or not. If sh,
doesn't-go (and 1t all depends on her
Rodney won't be much help), why, hav
Ing Il house like that might be prett,
sad. So, If you're a true friend, you'll
tell me what you think"
What l really think" said Violet
"of course | suppose I'd say this any
way, but | do honestly mean its
that she'll be what John calls 6
'knock-out.' She's so perfectly simple
shes never-don't you know-beinl
anything. She just is. And she
thinks we're all so wonderful that shell
mike everybody feel warm and nice
inside, and they'll be sure to like her.
shes got a real eye for clothes
too said Frederick. We've been
shopping. Well, then, I'm going to tell
Rodney to go ahead and take the
house"
Rose was consulted about 1t, of
course, though consulted is perhaps
not the right word to use. She was
taken to see it, anyway, and asked If
she liked ia question in the nature
OF the s%upertluous. One might as well
have asked Cinderella if she liked the
gown the fairy godmother had pro-
vlded her with for the princes ball.
1t didn't occur to her to ask how
much the REM would be, nor would
the fact have had any value for her
as an illuminant, because she would
have had no idea whether six thou
sand dollars was Il half or a hun
dredth of her future husbands Income.
The new house vas just a part, as
so many of the other things that had
happened to her since that night when
Rodney had sent her flowers and taken
her to the theater and two restaurants
In Martins biggest limousine had been
parts, of Il breath-arresting fairy story.
The conclusion Frederick and Violet
had come to about her chance for
social success, was amply justified by
The event and 1t is probable that
Violet had put her finger upon the
handspring of it. SO it fell out that
what with the Junior league, the ON
ms auxiliary boards of one or two of
the more respectable charities, the
Thursday club and the Whinlers (this
was the smallest and smartest organi-
zntion Of the lott. fifteen or twenty
young women supposed to combine and
reconcile social and intellectual bril-
liancy on ever terms. What with all
this, her days were quite as full as
the evenings were, when she and Rod
ney dined and went to the opern and
paid fabulous prices to queer profess
SIGNALS, to keep themselves abreast
of the minute in all the new dances.
Portla had been quite right in say.
ing that she never had to do anything;
the rallying of all her forces under
the spur Of necessity was an expert
ence she had never undergone. And
1t was also true that her mother, and
for that matter, Portia herself, hal
spoiled her a lOt-had run about de-
ing little things for her, come in
and shut down her windows in the
morning, and opened the register, and,
on any sort of excuse, on n Saturday
morning. for example, had brought her
her breakfast on a tray.
But these things had been favors,
not services-never to be asked for,
of course, and always to be accepted
4 little alphabetically. She had never
known what it was really to be
81 haven't" Rose tod Rodney one
morning. "a single, blessed mortal
hing to do all day." Some fixture
for that morning had been
moved, she went on to explain, ana
Eleanor Randolph was feeling seedy
had called off a little luncheon
matinee party.
"Oh, that's o bad" he said with
concern. Cant you manage some
ming
TOO bad" said Rose in lively dis
sent. ITS too heavenly! I've got a
whole day just to enjoy being myself;
she reached for his hand,
md, getting it, stroked her cheek with
t being my new self. Portia used
o think 1 faxed pretty well. But
was-don't you Wright.
20. you see, it's a real adventure just
o say-well, that l wan the car at
quarter to eleven and to tell Otto
xactly where l want him to drive me
o. l always feel as If l ought to say
hat il he'll just stop the car at the
orner of. Diversey street, l can walk"
He laughed out at that and asked
Ier how long she thought this blissful
tate of things would last.
Forever" she said.
But presently she looked at him
ather thoughtfully. "Of course it's
one of it new to you" she said,
not the silly little things, nor the
Kings we do together-oh, the dinners.
nd the dances, and the operas. Do
sort of-wish I'd get tired of it?
II a dreadful bore to your
$50 long as it doesn't bore you,". he
aid $50 long as you 20 on-shininQ