The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-03
The Diary of an Engaged Girl

Well, we did powerful lot OF shop
ping, and mother really did buy me
some very fetching evening wraps,
plus some wonderful furs, that made
me hug her right in the shop. She is
SO good to me-specially now. Guess
it's because she knows that she is
going to lose me soon, and all that
Oh, / forgot to say that l told Aunt
Cecilia about meeting Cecil, and it
upset her no end, much to my sur
prise. finally asked her quite peev-
ishly why she was so worried just
because poor old Cecil was on the spot
And she made answer, most myster.
iously, That's just it; he is on the
spot" Now I ask you, isn't that an
extraordinary remark from a sane
woman?
And you're such an impulsive
child" was another of her erratic re.
m1nders, to my young SELF
But Of course soon realized that
1t was not the slightest use in the
world to argue with a relative-a
female relative, who is about to be
married. l know when to stop, do.
Just as soon as we had finished our
shopping tour, mother and I hied us
to comfy tea shop, and had several
cups of liquid amber. That's just what
tea Is in this country, the most de-
hcious and fragrant beverage imagin-
able. We fingered over this ceremony,
for we were both tired, and then at
tve-thirty / remembered that l was
due in Kensington Gardens at six. So
l made the best excuse could to
mater, and after seeing her into a
taxi. breezed away.
Cecil was waiting for me, under our
friendly oak tree, all smiles. He looked
different man from the one I had
found there in that spot just twenty
four hours earlier. Youth does re-
cuperate quickly, without a doubt !;
that's why it dissipates so!
His smile at the sight of me was
most cheering. I must say, for I have
been so long without the warming
smile of man that Cecil's looked
and seemed particularly grateful to me.
Anyhow We are cousins Safter all and
have seen enough of each other
to feel perfectly at home with thee
and me-and that's a factor in it.
self.
1t was another gorgeous sunset, and
we were like two kids, just full of
laughter and gladness. It did seem
good to be with Cecil, after all. And
le uoeS Seem 10 understand me
pretty well.
OF course he wanted to know the
reason for my down-heartedness, and
in the end told him, for after all he
had not held back any condolences
from me, and I felt that I should trust
him. just as he had done me.
When I told him of having received
but two scrappy notes from Jack in
the past two weeks or more, and of
rot having received any letter at all
on this last steamer, which brought
Jeffry, and all that, he was very
thoughtful and sympathetic. Told me
not to worry unnecessarily. that there
were probably a batch of letters on
the way now, and that nothing was
wrong or I would have had cable.
I pointed out to him that I did not
think that anything was wrong with
Jacks health or anything like that
Nay, much sadder were my feminine
suspicions-and then it came out, of
course, all about Barbara being there,
and all my worst thoughts about that
young person.
Cecil lauhed when I had finished
and assured me that II Jack could be
attracted to that foolish creature, Bar
hara, more than he was to a girl like
me. was well rid of him. But such a
thing was impossible. Besides cous-
ms are not SO, dangerous to each other
as all that. Take you and me, for in
stance. You don't care tinker's cuss