The Washington herald., 1922-07-18

Don't you ever form judgments
on things?" he asked with some
evaporation.
She shook her head and her eyes
wandered back to the dancers as
she answered.:
Il don't know. don't know any
thing about-what you should do,
or what anybody should do"
She confused him and hIndered
the flow of his ideas. Self-expres-
sion had never seemed at once So
desirable and so impossible.
Well" he admitted apologetic-
ally neither do /, of course, but
-"
Il just think of people," she con-
tinued, whether they seem right
where they are and fit into the pic
ture. 1 don't mind If they don't do
anything. l don't see why they
should: in fact it always astonishes
me when anybody does anything"
You don't want to do anything?"
Il want to sleep"
For a second he was startled. al
most as though she had meant this
literally.
Sleep"
Sort of. 1 want to just be lazy
and l want some of the people
around me to be doing things, be-
cause that makes me feel comfort
able and safe-and l want some of
them to be doing nothing at all, be-
cause they can be graceful and
companionable for me. But 1 never
want to change people or get ex-
cited over them"
you're a quaint little determin-
ist." laughed Anthony. It's your
world. isn't it?"
well" she said with a quick
upward glance, isn't it? AS long
as Im-young."
She had paused slightly before
the last word and Anthony sus-
pected that she had started to say
beautiful" 1t was undeniably
what she had intended.
Her eyes frightened and he
waited for her to enlarge on the
theme. He had drawn her out, at
any rate-he bent forward slightly
to catch the words.
But Let's dance" was all she
said.
Admiration.
That winter afternoon at the
Plaza was the first succession of
dates" Anthony made with her in
the blurred and stimulating days
before Christmas. Invariably she
was busy. What particular strata
of the city's social life claimed her
he was a long time finding out
II seemed to matter very little. She
attended the semi-public charity
dances at the big hotels; he saw
her several times at dinner parties
in Sherry's. and once as he waited
for her to dress, Mrs. Gilbert, apro-
pos of her daughters habit of go
ing" ratified off an amazing holiday
program that included half a dozen
dances to which Anthony had re-
ceived cards.
He made engagements with her
several times for lunch and tea-the
former were hurried and, to him at
least, rather unsatisfactory occa-
sions, for she was sleepy-eyed and
casual, incapable of concentrating
upon anything or of giving con-
secutive attention to his remarks.
When after two of these sallow
meals he accused her of rendering
him the skin and bones of the day
she laughed and gave him a tea
time three days off. This was in
nnitely more satisfactory.
One Sunday afternoon just before
Christmas he called up and found
her in the lull directly after some
important but mysterious quarrel:
she Informed him in a tone of
mingled wrath and amusement that
she had sent a man out of h.r
apartment-here Anthony snecu-
lated violently-and that the man
had been giving a little dinner for
her that very night and that of
course she wasn't going. So An
thony took her to supper.
Let's go to something!" she pro-
posed as they went down the eIe-
vator. 81 want to see a show.
don't your"
Inquiry at the hotel ticket-desk
disclosed only two Sunday-night
concerts"
Continued Tomorrow.