New Britain herald., 1927-08-03
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I hair. Well. come along, we may ai | well start" But Sally shook her head and did not stir from her cushion on the grass.
 No, thanks. Millie. I'm going to stay and have supper with Aunt En- she said quietly and firmly. Not for world; would she have driv- en off in John Yves car behind tim and Millic. Not for anything. She stayed where she was. hold ing up a magazine in front of her as if she were reading. She did not lower 1t until she heard Aunt Emily calling Goodbye" to everyone, and then the low murmur of the brown car as it started away.
 Was I very rude?" she asked when Aunt Emily, trim and severe in gray linen. came back across the smooth grass to her. And do you mind if I stay for supper? I invited myself" She put down the maga- zine.
 Aunt Emily did not seem to have heard her questions. She stood souarely in front of her. with her piercing eye. on sally's big blue ones.
 Sally" she said finally You like that man of Millie's, don't you?"
 The question came 50 unexpected ly that Sally answered 1t almost without thinking. She answered 1t with a short little nod of her head and a "Yes" that was more like a quick sigh than word.
 And then she found herself tell ing her aunt all about 1t. Aunt En- fly, for all her snap and matter-of- factness, was the kind of person p whom other people go with their troubles and their confessions.
 Confession is good for the soul, and 1t has way of taking load off the heart, too. And Sally felt certain relief when she had told Aunt Emily the whole story.
 Its silly to say I'm in love with him." she wound up, looking dream ily across the garden at the autumn roses. dimly pink in the dusk, but I think I am-without really know ing him. Aunt Emily. I saw him one day in the elevator in our building. and the next minute l was so in love with him that couldn't take my eyes from him.
 Aunt Emily smiled. Her smile was q mere quiver of her straight mouth.
 q wouldn't give much for that sort Of .ove," she said. That isn't the real kind. You've got to know a person to really know that you love him, my dear child"
 sally's face frightened a little. "1 hope that's true" she declared. T hope this is just a passing fancy-l wish I didn't think about John Wye all the time. It bothers me, and I'd like to get over it."
 "You probably will. Loves like the humps. It hurts while it lasts,' but it doesn't last forever"
 Aunt Emily began to pick np the cushions from the grass and set the basket chairs up against the old will low tree.
 Let's go in and get something to eat, and thea I'll walk down to the car line with you," she said. Lets see, there's cold chicken and tongue and some tomatoes.'
 There were q good many other things or the table in the cool, peaceful dining room-peaches and cold biscuits and two kinds of cake.
 But Sally ate almost nothing. Aunt Emily noticed that while she chattered about the changes she was going t, make in the house as soon as she started serving chicken dinners to the public.
 "I'm going 10 have the dining room and the parlor thrown into one room" she explained. looking through the doorway at the big shadowy room beyond the dining room.
 It was the 1oveliest room Sally had ever seen. A room of faded flowery ch;rtzes, dim old family portraits in gilt frames, and blue Bristol glass vases filled with Aunt Emily's fall roses.
 All her life it had been a pleasure to Sally to think that she belonged 10 a family who had owned room like that. It was the kind of room that fine, gentle people had lived in. People of good taste. People who had had a love for beautiful, simple things just as Sally herself loved them.
 T hate 10 think of your spelling the house that way" she told Aunt Emily later when they were waiting in the hot thick darkness for a street car
 Her aunt grunted. "The world do move my dear. and I'm going to keep moving with it." she replied. And I'm sick and tired of staying in my school teaching rut any long CT. If this new thing means giving up part of my house, don't care. l wish you'd come into it with me-"
 Sally shook her head. T can't"