The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-18

tired-I mean, they don't know.
When L cut my hair they thought
1 cut off my morals, and If l go OF
alone on a party they think l ought
to be in a harem. When they tell
me / don't act like the girls OF yes
terday 1 have to say who cares a
hang about yesterday when there
so many todays, and then I'm told
I'm just plain bad. Once in while
1 get so cut up about it that l have
to have a cry" She thought she
finished lamely. She smiled a little
at the futility of her explanations
But Yvonne displayed no amuse
ment. She said, very quietly:
"And don't you think that 1 am
cut up a bit, now and then, when
the people who are worth while, as
you say of them. interpret me as
both plain bad and fancy bad? Per
haps 1 am. There are different
ways to view everything, but--well, y
she broke off, and was silent for a
brief moment: "Well, you see that
1 do, understand. after all" she
added. And then: you were glad
to come to me because you think
am of today, and not yesterday
that I am the proof of all your little
theories of what a woman ought tc
be today-isn't that it?"
Joannas reply was eagerly CRATE
full. Eyes. That is what I tried to
say. 1 want to be able to do as ]
please and not be criticised.
Nj vONNE ROSE, and crushed
Y the fire from her cigaret.
- That's all the talk we shall
need, think" she said. 1--WE shall
enjoy each other tremendously, 1
imagine. Shall we go down to the
winter garden? There will be some
body, besides Teddy Dorminster still
there"
Joanna was conscious of some
thing having been said, of some con-
fidence reached out to her by
Yvonne, which she had not fully un-
derstood. She was puzzled, as II she
had been confronted by some subtle
challenge that masked a strategy.
For an instant she was at the point
of breaking away, Of running away
regardless Of the two trunks, a shin
ing new one and shabby old one,
which had been lifted down from her
taxicab. This impulse subsidized i'm
mediately, however. She decided
that after awhile she would under
stand Yvonne, perfectly.
And after awhile, a long time
after, Joanna did!
In the winter garden the group
that Yvonne had left around the
stone table had broken up. Only
Teddy Dorminster and two others
remained. One of these was a
swarthy, dark haired, dark eyed
man, who might have been Of any
age from twenty-five to forty five.
He was presented by Yvonne as
Pendleton. Joanna thought him q
very grave, and unaffable person.
The other besides Dorminster, was
a woman, who was easily more than
twenty-five but could not possibly
have been forty. Yvonne identified
her as Mrs. Marks. "Jove!' Lord
Teddy exclaimed when Yvonne had
named Pendleton and Mrs. Marks
for Joanna. i've thought of some
thing clever"
Think it over carefully, Teddy"
Yvonne admonished him, before
you reveal it. You're so often mis-
taken"
But this is excellent" the ir-
repressible Lord Teddy insisted.
Positively ripping. Pendleton, here,
and Doris, Doris Marks-don't you
see?"
only that both are Of a mind
that alcohol is better than tea, and
that you agree" Yvonne informed
him. "And also that the tea I have
poured for Miss Manners is waiting
to be passed.
"A thousand pardons, Miss Man
ners-by the way, is it quite all right
for me to repeat now what L let
escape from me a few minutes ago?
About you're being a. devlish pretty
girl, you know? L was telling Pen
here-Ah, that clover thing l
thought Of. I must tell you what
it was before 1 forget itr'
"One thing at time, "Yvonne
insisted. What were you telling
Penn"
THAT I'd just seen the kind of a
face that no man could ever forget
after he'd once held it close to him.
Isn't that what said, Pen old
boy?"
You said absolutely nothing of
the sort, or spoke Of any face what
ever" Pendleton gravely assured
him.
Perhaps I didn't" Teddy ad-
mitted 'But I thought it, and
meant to say it, So Miss Manners
will consider that 1 did,
Here the woman Yvonne had
called Mrs Marks iotorioctaI 1sTf