Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-06
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Chapter XXxV1I
lam Meets Carol Raker
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| WHEN Jean and Cicely met the
| M next morning at breakfast
w they were as apparently con-
| genial as two Well-bred
! young women should be. But Jean
| felt an undercurrent Of ill-feeling I'M
| der the surface of Cicely's gay man
ner and it made her vaguely uncom-
Portable. She felt that Cicely would
show her dispIeasure as soon as Jack
left, but he was mistaken. for as
soon as Jack had closed the outer
door, Cicely turned to Jean and said
| impulsively:
night. You know I'm fond of you
dear, and I wouldn't make you I'M
comfortable for the world
A glad little feeling of relief surg
moment she was tempted to tell
Cicely the truth about Dick Mason,
but she did not give way to this
impulse. She felt that even if she
could trust Cicely it would be mis-
take to bring up the subject again.
And so the entire matter was passed
over and apparently forgotten. Jean
remembered it only as an incident
that was important because it showed
Cicelys unrest, and desire for excite
ment, this same unrest that was so
apparent among all the young mar
ried women Of her set.
Just about this time a very inter
esting incident happened in Jeans
life, an incident that brought about
very real friendship between her
self and another woman.
known in the old days, a bachelor,
who had somehow SHE'D away from
matrimony and liked to do things
that were out of the ordinary, had
announced a series of teas for Sun
day afternoon. Alvin liked to gather
around him not only the people of
his own set, but a semi-Bohemian
crowd of artists, writer's and the
like, and the teas were a great sue
cess.
At one of these affairs Jean was
introduced to Carol Baker, the novel
| list, a woman of thirty-five or thirty
six, with prematurely gray hair, and
| a charming manner. Jean liked her
from the first, and Carol was more
than interested in her. There was
something about this slim young
thing with her wide gray eyes and
proud little head that fascinated
Carol She felt that there was more
| to Jean than there was to the aver
| age young woman in her class, and
she invited her to tea one afternoon
as an experiment.
After a few preliminary expert
ments in conversation Jean found
herself talking to Carol Baker as
she hadn't talked to any one before
in her life. Without betraying con-
fidences, she poured out her bewild-
erment as to the change that had
taken place among the people she
| had once known.
There's such a feverish unrest, if
| 20 know what I mean," she eS"
planned 1.-THE women don't seem to
be satisfied with their husbands, they
crave excitement. I don't understand
| it at ALL
It's the spirit of the times, my
dear" Carol explained promptly
Most women don't know what they
want, thoughts are changing con-
stantly, ideals are broken and built
up again. It's period of transition
for women and they have lost their
simplicity of outlook. A few years
ago there were only two kinds OF
| women, the woman who was COM
PEELED to work in an office and the
woman who was content to love some
man, keep his home and bear him
his children. Now there are all kinds
of women who work, from the kind
who have to, to the kind who take
it up as fad so as to keep up with
| the times
|. There was silence for a moment
! between them, and only the musical
tick of the French clock on the man
telpiece could be heard in the room.
Then Carol Baker spoke again.
II hear that you are very happily
married. You seem to have solved
| the problem for yourself anyway"
Jean heStitated, and then with a
sudden impulse she raised her head.
She was conscious of only one thing
as she spoke and that was that she
| trupsted this calm-eyed, low-voiced
woman more than she had ever trust
| ed any one in her life before.
CHAPTER xXXVIII