Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-18

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know nothing about, except as 1 have
read about them in books. So, when ]
remember how things used to be be-
tween u.s. how l used to be the one who
knew things. and how I preached and
spouted, get to feeling that the man
you remember must look to you now,
like-well, like schoolboy showing
off"
She stared at him incredulously
"But that's downright morbid" she
said. Its horrible that should make
you feel like that" she concluded.
''It isn't you," he told her 'Tts
just the situation. can't help feeling
that I'm taken on approval. oh, it's
got to be like that! There are things
that, with all the forgiveness in the
world, you can't forget. And until
you have seen that am different, that
have made myself different. ~
She gave shaky laugh. "OnI APP
prevails" Her eyes filled again. "Rod-
dy, you can't mean that She came
over and sat down in his lap, and slid
her arm around his neck. "This is
where We'll begini" she said. "That
I'll neyer-whatever happens-walk
out on you again. Whether things
go well or badly with us, We'll work it
out, somehow, together"
It was not until she heard the long,
shuddering sigh he drew at that, and
felt him go limp under her, that she
realized how genuine his fear had
been-the perfectly preposterous fear
that if their new experiment didn't
come up to her anticipation, she'd tell
him so, and leave him once more. This
time, for good.
1t was a good while before they
took up a rational discussion again,
but at last she said: 'It will take
working out, though. We've been
Sinking that. Hadn't we better be-
gin?"
SWELL" he said when he'd got his
pipe alight. "it's the first question 1
asked you after-after I got my eyes
open: What are we going to do?"
81 told Alice Perosini," she said,
'the day before we left to come up
here, that I'd come back in a month,
and that I'd stay until I'd finished all
the work that we were contracted for.
felt l had to do that. You under
stand, don't your"
"Of course" he said. "You couldn't
consider anything else. But then
what?"
"Then," she said after a little ST.
lence, "then, if it's what you want me
to do, Roddy, I'll come back to Chi
cago for good"
"Give up your business, you mean"
he asked quickly.
She nodded. ''It can't be done out
there" she said. "All the big produc-
tons that there's any money in are
made in New York. I'll come back
and just be your wife. I'll keep your
house and mother the children, and
maintain your status, if you don't
think I'm spoiled for that"
That last phrase, though, was said
with smile, which he answered with
one of his own. But with an instant
return to seriousness, he said: "Pve
not asked that, Rose. l wouldn't dream
of asking it,"
There's real job there" she per-
sisted, "just in being successfully the
wife of successful man. / can see
that now. never saw it when it was
my job. Hardly caught a glimpse of it.
didn't even see my bills; let you
pay them down at the office, with all
your own work that you had to do"
1T wasn't me-" he said. at was
Miss Beach"
She stared at that and gave a short
laugh. eff I'd known that ="
she said. Then she came back TO the
point ut is real job, and I think
/ could learn to do it pretty well.
And of course wife's the only person
who can do it properly"
Still he shook his head. But he
hadn't, as yet. any reasoned answer to
make, except as before, that 1t
wouldn't work.
what viii work, then?" she asked.
And this he couldn't answer.
We've just got to go ahead" he
said at last, "and see what happens.
Perhaps you can work 1t out so that
you can do part of your work at home.
We could move the nursery and give
You Florence's old studio. And then
it would do If You only came down
here for your two big seasons-fall
and Suring."
That doesn't seem far to you" shs