Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-30
CHAPTER XIX.
WHAT THE FAMILY SAID.
~ .. The RAY,a Story.

Seems to me that getting engaged
is very much like that game "Conse-
quences." What "he" said and what
She" said is bound to be followed by
what "the world" said. The world of
course being the little private world
of their people" and friends.
Fake "her" people. Always a most
man. Il suppose I shall get accus-
toned, some day, to calling myself
that.) All Phyllis's people have been
most decent to me-and yet-and yet
every one of them has managed to get
me just a bit puzzled. AS If they
were thinking of something that
doesn't come into our engagement;
thinking of it all the time. Now
what is it? Perhaps only my fancy.
To begin with her mother. Now
Mrs. Carteret is about the sweetest
lady I've met: Grey hair fluffing out
round a pale-pink fac like a rose
that's been under the rain; and lies
down a good deal on the big couch in
their drawing-room because she's not
strong. Rather older than her hus-
band, 1 fancy; and, I consider! streets
from the way she says Harry and
picks a bit of fluff off his coat that
he's the only me on earth, to her.
l. think that's lovely, And 1 tell you
I'm bucked that she likes me. For
she said as soon as I was alone with
her, my a boy! I do mean it that
you are a dear boy. Jack, Ian so
know! Happier than I thought I was
going to be abh to BET"
(What did h mean by that p
IN said, Its such a mercy. I can
absolutely trust my poor Maynard Ba-
by to YOU, 1 know! You see Phyllis
Is the youngest and favorite, she's
never shocked or old-fash- about hny-
thing Phyllis does, says or wears.
Thinks Phyllis can do no wrong be-
cause she's like her father.
AS for her father, he said, "Glad
PhiTs had the sense t6 accept you. ]
never thought she'd settle things this
way"
(Now what did he mean?)
-"'Or see what was good for her"
you; bound to rise, steady as a rock,
and not like the rest Of Well! you
know what ] think Of your genera
ton, Smith. / don't see that the Wars
altered that much, except that they
fancy themselves more. 1 can most
~ tire EN- out still when it comes to
a days foing and dance after! Cad,
they ought to have seen me at twenty
five-'
You see Mr.. Carteret ID one of these
men who can't bear to leave or being
twenty-five, long after he's five-and-
forty. II you'll behave me. Says to
girls remember, / might be your
grandfather In m breath and,
please don't call me Mistcr!" In the
next. As keen on his clothes as he is
on his business. The kind of man
who holds up" the bathroom for
hours every morning and out at
last in a Paisley silk dressing gown,
smelling like the whole inside OF
Morny's shop. Phyllis told mo this.
When her best part Of vanishing
cream vanishes completely she's safe
to find 1t on the glass-shelf OF 'rHar-
RVS dressing-room among hissrows OF
bottles OF special hair-stnff, tooth
and skin-stuff. Don't see the
point Of all this myself In a man
(though Phyllis said once In her lar.
fetched way that 1t all meant the One
Thing that really Holds . wonnan).
But MIR. Carteret's dashed clever and
popular. Well-thougnt-of. too, by lots
OF u people on the Great Interme-
date. Going to be useful to mo
there. 90 I'm lucky IN my fathsr.in-
law to be. too.