New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

lovely tunes," she said, She knew that the
subject was not exhausted and she hurried
on. "The. hall was real large" she super
added, "and there were quite a good many
people there. And it was too warm"
Il see, said Cornish. and said whaS he
had been waiting to say: That he, too, had
been in Savannah, Georgia.
Lulu lit with pleasure. ''Well.' she said
And her mind worked and she caught at the
moment before it had escaped "Isn't it
pretty city," she asked And Cornish assent
ed with the intense heartiness of the provn-
cal He, too, it seemed, had conversational
appearance to maintain by its own effort. He
said that he had enjoyed being in that town
and tAat he was there for two hours
81 there for week" Lulu's superiority
really pretty
Have good weather." Cornish selected next
"Oh, yes. And saw all the different
buildings but at her we she flushed and
was .slenced. She was coloring and breathing
quickly. This was the first bit of conversa-
ton of this sort of Lulu's life
A FTER supper Ina inevitably proposed cro-
quet. Dwight pretended to try to escape
and, with his irresponsible mien, talked about
Ina, elaborate in his insistence on the third
perSon-"She loves it, we have to humor her.
you know how it is Or mol You don't know
But you wilp'-and more of the same sort,
everybody laughing heartily save Lulu, who
looked uncomfortable and wished that Dwight
wouldn't and Mrs. Bett, who paid no attention
to anybody that night, not because she had
not been introduced, an omission, which she
had not noticed, but merely as another
form of "tantrim," a self indulgence
They emerged for croquet. And there the
porch sat Jenny Plow and Bobby, waiting for
Di to keep an old engagement which Di pre-
tended to have forgotten, and to be frightfully
annoyed to have to keep. She met the OBJ
jections of her parents with all the batteries
Of her coquetry, set for both Bobby and Cor
nish and, bold in the presence of company
at last went laughing away. And in the min
ute areas of her consciousness she said to her
self that Bobby would be more in love with
her than ever because she had risked all to go
with him; and that Cornish ought to be dis
tinctly attracted to her because she had not
stayed. She was primitive as pollen.
Ina was vexed. She said so, pouting in
fashion which she should have outgrown with
white muslin and blue ribbons, and she had
outgrown none of these things
THAT just spols croquet," she said "Im
vexed Now can't have real game"
From the sdedoor, where she must have
been lingering among the waterproofs Lulu
stepped forth.
"Il play game she said
WHEN Cornish actually proposed to bring
some music to the Deacons', Ina turned
toward Dwight Herbert all the facets of her
responsibility. And Ina's sense of RESPONSE
blity toward Di was enormous, oppressive
primitive, amounting, in, fact, toward this
daughter of Dwight Herbert's late wife to an
ability to compress the Offices of stepmother-
hood into the functions of the lecture platform
Ina was fountain of admonition. Her idea
of a daughter, step or not, was that of manu-
factured product, strictly, which you constant
ly pinched and nodded. She thought that
moral preceptor had the right to secret pre-
cepts. D got them all. But, of course the
crest OF Ina responsibility was to marry Di
This verb should be transitive only when low
ers are speaking of each other or the minister
or magistrate is speaking of lovers It should
never be transitive when predicated of parents
or any other third party. But it is Ina
was quite agitated by its transitiveness as
she took to her husband her incredible re-
sponsbity.
"You know, Herbert" said Ina, "if this
Mr. Cornish comes here very much. what we
may expect"
What may we expect?" demanded Dwight
Herbert, crisply
Ina always played his games, answered what
he expected her to answer, pretended to be
lntuitive when she was not so, Said II know"
when she didn't know at ALL Dwight Herbert.
on the other hand, did not even play her games
when he knew perfectly we'll what she meant.
but pretended not to understand made her
repeat, made her explain. 1t was as if Ina
had to please him for, say living; but as
tor That dentist, he had to please nobody In
the conversations of Dwight and Ina you saw
the historical home forming in cots in the
fluid wash of the community.
He'll fall in love with Di,7 said Ina.
And what of that? Little daughter will
have many a man fall in love with her. I should
say"
Yes, but, Dwight, what do you think Of
him."
What do think of him? My dear Ina.
have other things to think Of
But we don't know anything about him.
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