New Britain herald., 1927-12-20
He set it down on the table.

1 in green linen.
 "Mornin' family" Lily said. pull ing out her chair from the table. She slipped into it and held out her lips, bright with scarlet paint, to Pat. Her kiss left a trace of color on his face.
 Then she reached for the package | of cigarets that he carried in the pocket of his shirt and put one into ! her mouth.
 Got a match, old darling?" sine asked him.
 He shook his head, and spoke hurriedly to her from behind his | hand. Better go upstairs and get 1 dressed, hadn't you?'
 Lily stared at him. "Ill bring your breakfast up to you he added in that same hurried undortone, He had lived with the LeXingtons long
 enough to know that Lily always had her breakfast on tray in bed
 "We thought maybe you'd like 10 sleep late this morning, seeing it's Sunday" his mother said, her quick ! eyes going from Lily's cig1rct fo her sons face. Pat said he'd take
 you a tray after q while. or
 would you rather get dressed and
 cat down here with us"'
 Her words spoken in h". low,
 gentle voice. made it quit 10 Lily that she did not 'eXpcci her to
 stay there at the table and eat break
 fast, dressed as she was-or rather,
 not dressed.
 Lily jumped up from the table and
 ran back to her room. Her face was
 scarlet with humiliation, and sh"
 stamped her foot on the floor, just
 as hard as she could, before She
 kicked off the satin mules nha
 climbed back into bed.
 q suppose your mother thinks I'm
 not very modest because l Weih
 down stairs iii my breakfast coat
 and no stockings" she said 10 Pat a
 few minutes later, when he came
 uns,airs with coffee and toast on q
 little tray.
 He set it down on the table beside . inc bed, and poured out cup ot
 steaming amber coffee "Yeah, l guess she does think So' } he said, in his blunt, honest way. , T wouldn't smoke clgarets ln tronl , of her. either. Shes pretty prim and old-fashioned. you kHoW. Lily turned up her nose ever such , q little. Well, I'm not she an } swered, calmly, And l have my life : to live just as she has. And . maybe we'll get along better If she
 lets ma live it in my own way. I've
 been smoking cigarets ever since
 was l6-I learned from the boys al dancing school, I remennber-and it's a. habit that I'm not even going tc / try 10 break"
 She empticd her coffee cup ant
 leaned back against the fancy little . lace pillows that Florence had
 brought in from her own room fol 7 her. Her face. with Its starry eye; 5 and apricot flush. was full of def. 5 ance.
 l Pat looked at her helplessly. Il . she had been an automobile tha $ was "out of whack" he would hay, known just what to do. But he knew - very little about girls-especialll r beautiful and wilfu girls who want. ] ed their own way and were used tc 3 getting it--and 50 he said the very
 worst thing he could have said: t T think shes right, Lily. I hate [ 10 kiss you when you smell of to. 8 hacco. A girl like you ought to bf :. as sweet as Q rose---''
 l And what about you smelling O. 3 tobacco?" Lily broke in. sharply : her eyes blazing. "Js it any worse for me to smell of cisarets than fol l you to?"
 ,. He said 1t was He said you eH = pected a man 10 be rough anl read!
 and tobacco smoking. hut that 7 $ woman ought to be as fresh as rose. ] and sunshine all the time, 2 You talk like q sentimenta ] sap" Lily snapped at him. "Now ] don't try to change mo, Pat France | l pu LI'4I ltI -iI<'--lpA SO4liE l'lll4
 Dolly who sits around reading Pur ' Thoughts for Perfect RoundheelS
 and eating marshmalows for 5, thrill! You knew I smoked befor I you married me, and If you want | - know something else, I'm going [ r keep right on dong it.' 5. She reached under .. pillow an Q brought forth 2 pale pink enamt . case filled with brown Mexican cig Q arets that stalcy Drnmmonl ha' s given her 2 few days before. Fh
 stuck org upon her lower !ir. f She was lighting it wh'n Pa @ opened the door, and she lid no n look up when ha went out of th n room. The door closed behlr- him. r Presently Lily heard hi}l whie
 ting in the backyard, where he Wi l. tinkering with his fathers deliver - automobile. Presently t rolled ou fl of the driveway with him in it. Sh [, watched 1t disappear, stand 'ng a c the bedroom window. and when
 vas out of sight she felt very 'onel q and blue.
 ). At eleven Florence came up tn 1 stair, and rapped op the door.