The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-16
DENOMINATIONS
CHAPTER Sc.


But to decide to leave and to carry
out the decision, we're two entirely
different matters, as soon found out.
1t was difficult enough to make up
my mind to break with Win-even
few weeks before / would not have
thought II possible. | was in love with
him, inspite of everything that had
happened-in spite of the distrust be-
tween US, the long standing absence
of sympathy, the quite opposite points
of view that we held.
Up to few weeks before this talk
with Colin | had only one idea-to
hold on, desperately, to him, to any
| least point of contact, to any slight
chance that would bring US together
again.
Now had abandoned all such ideas.
| | could not stay. | did not know what
Z! il would be like to leave. | had no
! idea where l would go. 1t would mean
i comment, gossip for week or so
| little cynical laughter from some peo-
| ple-and then that would be over and
they would accept the new arrange
ment. 1t meant, perhaps, that / would
never see Winthrop-but wasn't even
that better than to be panied and
hurt whenever / was with him?
/ Sitting there in the freight after
Colin had gone, I went back over our
/ life together. How little we under
stood each other at the start | was
pretty and fashionable. He thought |
could give him the frivolous, empty,
/ gaudy life he seemed to delight in. He
was Straightforward, simple and hon.
est with me. ! thought he would give
me the quiet wholesome life | seemed
to want and to like.
! | thought about my family and won
dered where | had inherited my sim
pie. domestic tastes. Not from my
sophisticated father-to him correct
form was everything. Not from his
part of the family for my aunt made
fashion a religion.
/ wondered whether it had come
from my mother-the mother l did not
remember, about whom | knew almost
nothing. | was going TO find out
about her | determined that.
Meantime-where was | to go? TO
my aunt's? That meant my old suite
of rooms in her huge house, a round
of dances, dinners, dressmakers-no
there was no improvement in that.
| had to go off alone, at least to
live alone 1t did not make an appeal
ing picture.
The door swung open and Win came
in. He switched on all the lights. He
always did when passing through a
room or entering. He fairly lived in
a glare of electricity.
He looked at the tea table-with its
two empty cups.
who's been here?" he asked.
| Colin He left early, | answered
He seems to have left you in a ro-
mantle mood. since l find you staring
at the dying fire in a dark room. Ro-
mantle, but not specially cheerful
MY thoughts weren't romantic,
neither were they specially cheerful, u
| answered.
Thinking of Colin"
mo, not of Colin. of you"
j ooh, so I'm neither romantic nor
cheerful! Well, we've been married
! nearly two years. l suppose you can't
expect a honeymoon to last that long.
1T would have lasted if you had
tried little" l began, eager to make
my point clear. Il tried to do things
your way-I would not even mind go
ing about all the time to these silly
places-only-"
/ only what?" Already his brows
were drawn together, his face set in
the sullen lines l dreaded so.
"Only-the other women. l mean
! since | was in love with you, it did
hurt me to see you flirting so out
rageously."
There you go again. You accuse
me of flirting every time I'm merely
pleasant to another woman. | never
say word about that little red head