The Washington times., 1923-02-18

again laughs heartily
JOSEPHINE (o1aterS, laughing, and
calls back to some one d0aUn the
like now I'm too far away to
hear you. I'll watt here under
the trees. (She is delighted Nth
the garden How peaceful look
ing, and how cHtei
THOMAS trises and coughs sig
nilfcdntlyl.
JOSEPHINE May I borrow bit
of nice cool shade?
THOMAS COLLECTS his books to
gedUeI- Help yourself, please.
JOSEPHINE lis struck By his OOice
and manner Haven't we met
before?
THOMAS (GppalIed, puts dOton his
books - Good heavens Jose
phine!
JOSEPHINE-Wfll you ever forget
our meeting in Paris?
THOMAS (unedsiIUJ Rather UNI
conventional
JOSEPHINE fsUith sincere delight
But we were in France! can
see it yet! Armistice day! The
mobs coming down the Rue dur
Louvre, shouting. laughing, sing
ing, pushing everything out OF
their way. I was showed into a
doorway, and there stayed
perched on the doorstep, singing
and yelling with them. Suddenly
you said: Il beg your pardon,
miss, but for q change would you
mind standing on my other foot? ?"
Then / lost my balance, you held
me and we became close friends!
lShe IGMghs.1
THOMAS ffri0idlD) Ills that Jour
automobile out there?
JOSEPHINE Well--we used to
call it an automobile, but you
ought ~ hear what we call It
nowl And don't go near my hus-
band. He's raYfng mad.
THOMAS oh, your husband?
JOSEPHINE Oh, yes! And that
reminds me; ] don't even know
your name so as to Introduce You
to each other That day in Paris
i called You Tommy because YOU
insisted on 1T.
THOMAS Surely my actions were
perfectly harmless
Perfectly harmless
at the start; but, of course, in the
end perfectly helpless.
THOMAS-Er-I dOn't> remember
that -
JOSEPHINEOf course you don't
remember! How could your You
were all lit up.
THOMAS-Lit up?
JOSEPHINE Yesi Don't yOu re-
member you took me to wine
shop some captain had recon-
mended?
THOMAS-Su Surely didn't drinks
At the beginning,
yes: but after a time things just
flowed across the table and out
of sight and you kept right on
smiling. Oh, Tommy, you should
have seen yourself do the
shimmy!
THOMAS-G Good Lord!
JOSEPHINE-You insisted on
smoking French cigarettes. And
YOU made me try them. You said
I'd never be a man unless
smoked them. Tommy, you don't
seem half so human now as in
Paris?
THOMAS-This is home!
JOSEPHINE-4Hom In Paris you
said: Josephine. swear, home
was never like this"
THOMAS 0TOanS.
JOSEPHINE Yes, you said it, and
you squeezed me and, Tommy,
remember going home in one OF
those funn. little French taxis -
it swerved and bounced so You
placed your right arm around
me-
THOMAS-YOu must be mistaken
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES? Why, Oh,
yes-not your right arm. Both
arms.
THOMAS-I'm sure it was to
steady you.
JoSEPHINE-That's exactly what
you said then. And at the hotel
remember?
THOMAS-What else?
JOSEPHINE-You wouldn't let me
out of the taxi without first kiss
ing me good-by.
THOM AS-Shockins!
JOSEPHINE-Tha exactly what
/ said then. But you said 1t was
Af1nistice day.
THOMAS lin despGir)-The whole
episode was harmless. Well. II
was, wasn't it?
JOSEPHINE-That is how ! look
upon it. So why get e~cited over
it?
ROSE (enters from house carrying
tray 1cith lemonade and gIdssesJ
Your lemonade, John. tDe-
posits tray on table,
THOMAS-How kind of you, my
dear er (stGring helptessIy
frOm Rose to JOSephine.)
JOSEPHINE-Your daughter?
THOMAS-No. My wife-Mrs.
Thomas-and, err
JOSEPHINE (bedmingJ-S0 glad
to know you. | met your hus-
band in France.
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