Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-07-18
CHAPTER XIII
EVERETT AND SANDRA co
SHOPPING

As leaned back In the luxurious
"A town car Everett had given me
for my very own l muttered:
"What do l care whether he is
pleased or notw Yet l knew 1 did
care, and the fact that a moment
after | had made the hasty exclama-
ton, was carefully examining my
face with a hand mirror to see if |
l really did look well, proved that l
did.
Inconsistent, yes. But was ever
seventeen consistent.
Everett was waiting for me, al
though 1 was exactly on time. He COM
plimented me saying;
"Many women think ten or fifteen
minutes one way or another makes
no difference. But a man likes
promptness. / am glad you have
that virtue among your other ones"
1t wasn't very intimate speech; but
| was glad he was pleased with me.
He then asked that they show me
the coat.
The coat was perfectly lovely! A
sapphire blue velvet with a sable
collar. 1t was awfully becoming.
But l WINGED when he said
81 knew it would be! Sapphire is
always becoming to people with your
colored hair"
Had Leola worn sapphire velvet,
too?
i gasped when / knew the cost,
but Everett never said word. Just
said to send it as soon as possible.
A slight change was necessary in
the collar or we might have taken it.
"You were very lovely in it, San
dra," he said when we left the store.
Now go and buy yourself some books
and magazines. / should like to go
with you, but haven't the time
AS he turned away after assisting
/ me into the car, my eyes filed. l
couldn't have told just why, but
something in his v0ice, his eyes as
he told me I was lovely in the coat,
made me think he was sorry for
me, and so made me sorry for my
self. But | brushed them quickly
away and spent an hour selecting
reading matter. l wished | knew the
kind of books he liked. ! must ask,
then | could occasionally buy him
one.
When he came home to dinner I
was curled up on the rug in front
of the fire place reading,
/ "Purring just like kitten" he
said as he kissed me and helped me
to my feet. He looked at the book
l was reading, then at the others
had bought, and selecting one said
he should take possession of it, as
he had wanted to read it ever since
he had read the reviews. l was
pleased out of all proportion to the
incident. But that he would read
anything | had selected, made me
think | was not so hopelessly child
ish as he usually made me feel. |
did so want him to treat me like a
grown-up.
He took me to the theater that
night, and never said cross or i'm
patient word Perhaps he does love
me little" l said to myself, "and
so is sorry for me-"
Had | known that for weary weeks
and months | was to blow hot and
blow cold over the question of Ever
ett's feelings for me l should not
have known how to endure my life.
But l was of an optimistic nature,
and it took very little to encourage
me to think as l wanted to think.
| 1t is SO easy to fool ourselves if
we really try.
Had l known that even then Ever
EFT was discovering that was not as
young as he had thought-not a
child; but a grown girl, almost a
woman. That he also thought me
very lovely, with the promise of
greater beauty when more mature,
it would have comforted me, i'm
mensely. l did realize in way that
he was rather proud of me. He
couldn't hide that. But l laid it al
to his taste in dressing me, for that
was what he did. Although he never
objected when l wore one of my sim
pie trousseau dresses in the house
he did object once when | wore one
when going to the theater with him.