New Britain herald., 1924-04-17
Doily's Love story

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 Doil,'s Love story
 Looking book to that April morning eighteen months ago, it all seemnd such foolish, stupid hlundtr.
 She had hated her life or nursery soyerness 10 a couple of spoiled. nn- manageable children; she had hated their mother, naughty, unsympatho- tic nourcsu rIehe: and. most of all. she had hated tho unilind freak of furtune that had made Robert Dur ham . poor man. All her life shc had lived amongst poserty--the gcn- teel, hard-to-bcar kind Of poverty which struggles so harvi 10 kcnp up appearance-and her soul shrank from perpetuating it by marriage wit Robert Durham.
 | She loved him: she loved him as well as it was in her 10 love any man. and yet she could not face the pros pect of 2 Stuccoed villa and q small income for tho rest or her life.
 And then ono golden April evening. Nigel Brctherton had opened the schoolroom door and walked into her life.
 She could recall it all TO plainly now, though it was eighteen months ago; see him as slic had seen him then--talI, and good to look upon. with the quick admiration in his eyes as they rested on her face. He had come to the schoblroom often after that. and by the time she had found out that he vas wcll-to- | do younger son with prospects. he had proposed.
 They were married in less than q month; he explained that there was nothing to wait for. | T haven't any people except a brother who's been living in South Africa for a couple of years, and probably will never come back. Hes q good deal older than am, and deli- cste-a quaint sort of chap. I don't think you'd like him. Dolly
 So they married in haste. and camo lack from 2 honeymoon Of disiliu- sionment ana petty disagrccmcnts with all the remainder Of their lives in whic btorcp ent q: leisure.
 
 Dolly had discovered many things during that brief honeymoon. thc most important Of which was the fact that she would never rare for any man half so well as she had cafrd for Robert Durham: the next in im- portance being that her husband was perfectly conscious or the fact that he has married a woman beneath his own station in fife.
 The Brother1in's or Little IIelrton were ''somebodies." even though thc old mansion which had been theirs for centuries had been leet for some yaare. a fact which Dolly resented.
 She would ha,e liked to be the lady of the manor. she would have liked to IivP amongst bluc-bIoodcI metuo- Iiss and portraits of ancestors. Uns Gay sIe said so to Nigel
 But he oni. laughed.
 The old place belongs to 1batid. a he said. T suppose shall ect fl ir tho cnd. hut you'lI have fo wait" He took a charming fat for her ir EtusinEton. bui 1t0liy rOiid noi for =et the pictures siin had srrn Of tbs I:cd Grange.
 "Why is II Iet@" shn inqisted ir- rttsbIs. Why don't ,ou lite there 2" NigtI fropHsd.
 ' It's Datid's. as long as hn-s alive. T told you that: and uiicn he was 6r. iered abroad for his health, E., thought jt best to iet the old place. couldn't have lived there alone. should have gone melancholy nad.''
 We could entertain. 1T he won let us live there"
 Nigel flushed.
 "Irhe fact is" he said desperately , f.avi5 Ioesn't know I'm married. hstenf told hitn-he1s such s peSu