San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-25
CHAPTER XIX
The Task Of Holding Love.

The Task Of Holding Love.
Nora Lee took her place next I
Dane with an aloof quiet. He tosse,
the plans brusquely to the back seat
You're angry, Nora Lee?'
why should ! be angry"
But you are. She asked TO SCI
the sketches. The Naples are he
most intimate friends. They wanted
Ter opinion. You have TO humor thest
people"
Nora Lee blinked: "Of course, In
rot angry at all. You knew, really
don't mind if you talk TO othel
women in the course Of business In
not quite that jealous. She's OK
tremely interesting"
"Yes-she IS"
well, adieu TO her, then. She's
taken up enough Of our Sunday
She laughed and waved the faScinat-
ing image from her thoughts. She
became gaily misunderstanding and
flirting with him.
NORA LEE FAILS
On the outskirts of her rirth. Ma
talie Herbert. vivid and sad, persist
cd. She had time 70 look over the
sketches-even to make one with new
suggestions. She felt honored that
IN exceptional man considered her
,Dinion. But Nora Lee had carelessly
failed.
All the next morning she was
oppressed with the image OF Natalie.
her face becoming girlish and ap-
realing. as it sought Danes. She
.Aoucht bitterly: why does a
auntin- woman like her remain sin
~lcl Why doesn't she choose some
an and leave another girls bus
END alone"
This vas ridiculous, Of course.
r1Eo hadn't the remotest interest
n Natalie Herbert.
Nora Lee told herself this and
l.ughed. yet a vague. irritable IN
mess stole into her heart. As she
1-cssed for her Monday afternoon
ridge club she kept seeing Natalie's
rtivating hands-kept wondering
rhat Natalie might be doing this hour,
this moment
Something splendid. perhaps? Some-
hing ma:nificent and adventurous:
: FUTILE LIFE
She saw her own life frittering away
a this round Of shopping, card part
-. teas and became suddenly flaming
With discomfort.
But what else vas there IN do:
What else did anyone do? Life has
ro sublime. MAGNIFICENT experiences
hidden away and waiting for the he
rnic soul. You either do what every
one else does or you seek out some
lonely tub like the cynic Diogenes and
do nothing!
Nora Lee had fancied marriage
would solve all problems-that once.
having taken her mate, they would
walk serenely down Life-serenely and
ioyously. She would no longer won
der about the right and wrong of
things. She would be blissfully settled
and certain.
New she found herself more con-
fused, more disturbed than at any time
in her girlhood. Marriage was not
the end but the beginning Of q deep
spiritual warfare.
There was this fear Of losing love
infinitely more gripping than the Won
der Of winning it.
PROGENY QUESTION
There was the tremendous question
Of children. And whether one has a
right 10 refuse this responsibility. ard
whether it is wise 10 refuse it. Should
cne claim the right to live joyously
and unhampered. Or is Life gift
50 priceless that one is in duty bound
10 pass it on and on thus weaving
himself relentlessly into the immortal
chain Of life-no longer-a free isolated
unit, rejoicing in the leap Of his pulse
but an eternal link between the past
and the future?
And yet more heart-pinching than
either Of these considerations was
the vicious chance of enlargement
the gradual imperceptible falling
apart. He would become more and
more absorbed in his work she would
be drawn deeper and deeper into this
gay whirlpool of excitement.
She thought childishly. "Oh ] wish
We had died on our honeymoon -
She called for Hester Crawford.
Hester said: We're early. Drive |
through the park Hester twisted
the rings on her left hand and began
without prelude: Il suppose you'll
to it at last. I'm divorcing Jeff"
BOREDOM BLAMED
1T was said in such matter-of- |
fact brevity that Nora Lee responded
lightly: "Oh can fancy that, when
you've shouted 70 the heavens that
Jeff is the best fellow on the earth"
He is. I'm not contradicting that.
But / just can't stand the humdrum
any longer. Jeff bores me TO madness.
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