Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-26
Henshawe saying about her sailor
brother backing his face to be

OTOlIeI UI6ChlNS HAS AuCS w VIC
like the niger who used to walk
up and down the supper-room
singing in the old days at Ciro's?
"Ciro's! l was
there, Of course. but things M
heard Rather q. queer
place, 1 should think. Well! J.
hope the Henshawes' parties
wouldn't be anything of that sort!
. How many brothers has
she got. my dear?
Myself. Three more besides the
W. who cane here.
David. Dear me. They all dance, i
daresay. Well, we'll. :.
- Pause.
[Stage directions a | a that funny
old Bernard Shaw long ago. Grannte
knitting and dropping heaps of stitches
that 1 knew l should have to pick up
for her presently. David leaning up
against the mantelpiece like a hus-
band. Myself moving about the room,
a little disconsolately shaking up the
cushions and Strengthening the anti
m-acasassars that had been d~isarrang-
ed by Mabel, her fiance, and her
brothers.l ..o. .-','
Again ..
Grannie. I always think girls look
eve SO much better when they
.ira1 dress a Little quietly; and neatly.
l., Myself. Granniel You didn't. think
Mabel was loudly dressed?.
! Grannie. Oh, perhaps not, dear.
, But l noticed that she had for
gotten to curl the feather in her
" hat before she came out; it look
ed dreadfully untidy, 1 thought.
| Myself. But that was meant! That
vas a 'glycerined" feather!
Grannie. Dear me; very ugly fash
L lima thew Snorn A0 hoHn ~ %hoSo
Pause.
[Stage directions as before: Grannie
struggling with a dropped stitch. My
self smoothing a mat on the occasional
table. David quietly watching every
thing I did, T7a''
David. Well. my little girl? And
these are the young people. you
think 80 interesting?
Myself. Oh! I don't know about
their being specially interesting,
nary. I suppose just like
most young people one sees about
/. having a good time and all
that sort of thing.
Daid. Is that it,, Well!
Well, II you still very much want
to go to this party OF theirs, my
dear little girl, I'll take you. GER
If I wanted to! As if anybody on
earth could possibly want to go to
| anything that had been talked about
as Grannie and David Lewis had just
been talking about our guests, I
looked from Grannie to him. At that
moment they seemed to me exactly
the sa;me age. The dainty little old
lady of saxty-seven, priimly busy with
her knitting. n the solid kindly man
of Observation-Disclosures in front
of the fire-they eemed to me just
the same number Of years older than
l a Hundreds Of years older. than
or the Henshawes or n Of their
friends who were going to be at that
dancing-tea on Saturday.
In a II voice l heard myself say,
0 . l don't know that l really
want to go so very much, I'd just as
soon stay away. /. .." -, (.
Better SO perhaps" said Grannie tt
her knitting. David Lewis said,
"Please yourself. my dear; you know
Yes. as II anything could please one
that had been pulled to pieces and
discussed in a voice like that! Oh, i
couldn't go.
I said again quite firmly, II don't
want to go" My " words seemed
to. me to shut a door. re-
A door that had been opening. !
thought, to show a bright glimpse OF
the outer world with other people who
were as young as myself and who
laughed and sang and danced and en-
toyed Life n who called to me to
come out and play with them.
It shut, that door. leaving me on
the other side alone with Grannie and
David Lewis.