The Glenwood post., 1922-09-14


He ordered the dinner, instructing the
waiter with painstaking gruffness.
Not that they can touch your cook
ing here, Miss Lulu" he said, settling
himself to wait and crumbling a
crust.
Dwight. expanding bit in the aura
of the food, observed that Lulu was
a regular chef. that was what Lulu
was. He still would not look at his
wife, who now remarked:
"Sheff, Dwightie Not cheff."
This was mean advantage which
he pretended not to hear-another
mean advantage.
Ina" said Lulu, your hats just a
little mite-no, over the other way"
"Was there anything to prevent
your speaking of that beforer Ina
inquired acidly.
81 started to and then somebody
always said something" said Lulu
humbly.
Nothing could so much as cloud
LuIu's hour She was proof against
any shadow.
Say, but you look tremendous to-
night" Dwight observed to her.
Understanding perfectly that this
was said to tease his wife Lulu yet
flushed with pleasure. She saw two
women watching and she thought
"Thcy're feeling sorry for Ina-no
body talking to her" She laughed
at everything that the men said She
passionately wanted to talk herself.
"How many folks keep going past"
she said, many times.
At length. having noted the details
of all the clothes in range, Ina's iso.
lation palled upon her and she set
herself to take Nlnian's attention,
She therefore talked with him about
himself
Curious you've never married,
Nin," she said.
Don't say it like that" he begged.
II might yet"
Ina laughed enjoyably. "Yes, you
might!" she met this.
"She wants everybody to get mar
ried, but she wishes hadn't"
Dwight threw in with exceeding ran
cor.
They developed this theme exhaus-
lively, Dwight usually speaking in the
third person and always with his
shoulder turned bit from his wife.
1t was inconceivable, the gusto with
which they proceeded. Ina had as.
sumed for the purpose an air distrait,
casual attentive to the scene about
them. But gradually her cheeks be-
gan to burn.
She'll cry" Lulu thought in alarm,
and said at random; Ina. that hat is
so pretty-ever so much prettier than
the old one" But Ina said frostily
that she never saw anything the mat
ter with the old one.
'Iet us talk" said Ninian low, to
Lulu. 'Then they'll simmer down.
He went on, in an undertone, about
nothing in particular, Lulu hardly
heard what he said. it was so pleasant
to have him talking to her in this
confidential fashion; and she was
pleasantly aware that his manner was
open to misnterpretation.
In the nick of time the lobster was
served.
Dinner and the play-the show, as
Ninlan called it. This show was
peter Pan" chosen by Ninian be-
cause the seats cost the most of those
Mt any theater. 1t was almost inde-
cent to see how Dwight Herbert. the
immortal soul had warmed and melt
ed Mt these contacts. BY the time
that all was over and they were Mt
the hotel for supper, such was his
pleasurable excltation that he was
once more playful, teasing, once more
the irrepressible. But now his Ina
was to be won back, made it evident
look and fine frmness sat upon the
little doubling chin.
They discussed the play, Not one
Of them had understood the story
The dog-kennel part-wasn't that the
I queerest thing? Nothing to do with
the rest of the play.
81 was for the pirates. The one
with the hook-he was my style" said
Dwight.
wen, tnere IL ls HpHlH, liza cTleu
''They didn't belong to the real play
either"
"Oh, we'll" Nininh said. they have
to put In parts, ! suppose, Nv catcl
everybody. Instead of song and
dance, they do that"
"And I didn't understand" said Ina
"why they all clapped when the prin
/ cipal character ran down front and
said something to the audience that
! time. But they all did"
Ninian thought this might have
been out Of compliment. Ina wished
, that Monona might have seen, con
fessed that the last part was so prett,
that she herself would not look ant
into Ina's eyes came their lovelies
light.
Lulu sat there, hearing the tall
about the play. "Why couldn't hav'
said that?" she thought as the other
spoke. All that they said seemed II
her npropos, but she could think o
nothing to add. The evening had beer