Evening star., 1927-10-03
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
BY MIMI.
The Only Chance.

| Here is an interesting problem
which may remind you Of some similar
mix-up in your own life.
| Betty is q good Hooking, intelligent
girl Of 20-odd, who has had plenty OF
good times and dates, but no real love
| until
Frank, the hero of our story, eight
| years her senior, came crashing into
| her life.
She met him at some informal tea
and right away she knew the game
was up as far as she was concerned.
| He's exactly what she has been
looking for all her life, and they both
know it. Theirs is an ideal compan.
ionship. Their tastes are similar, they
| have a terribly good time together,
and she at least is frantically in love.
Frank is overjoyed at the happiness
| he has found with her. He tells her
| there has never been another woman
with whom he has found such con.
| tentment and joy, but
Just before he met Betty he was
| madly in love with one Claire Claire
| Is beautiful, cultured and aristocratic.
| She has everything, and Frank nearly
| broke his heart over her. She went
| away from New York just before he
met Betty, and now she is coming
| back.
Frank is honest about the whole
thing. He tells Betty frankly that he
! has never loved her with the wild
adoring love he gave Claire. He has
found happiness and peace with her
such as Claire never gave him. but he
has no certainty in his mind that
when the beautiful blond comes back
he won't fall all over again.
It's pretty decent Of him to tell
Betty this. She knows just where she
stands. YOU see. He loves her in a
new way, she says. but whether the
old spell stills holds sway over him
| Is yet to be seen.
Poor Betty is a nervous wreck, wait.
ing for Claire to come back. Frank
| has asked that she see him regularly,
just as she always did. He has come
to depend on her. and he doesn't want
TO lose her friendship, even though
he may find himself still in love with
Claire.
/ Betty wants to know what to do.
VIII she drop out of his life alto.
gether and give him up to Claire? Or
| will she insist on his seeing her as
often as he does Claire? Which is
the wiser course?
1t seems to me that the only chance
she has is to leave him alone with his
beautiful lady for as long as he can
stand it.
You see, Betty knows that they
quarrel terribly, and she also knows
that Claire enjoys none of the things
which give him the most pleasure.
Now, If she will efface herself from
the picture and let him have weeks
of Claire's company, she may stand
a chance Of winning him for her own
forever.
If she continues to see Frank while
he Is making love to Claire. he is not
apt to notice the change. He will still
be soothed and comforted by Betty's
companionship and sympathy. He'll
half attribute this to Claire.
If he is left alone with his enchant.
ress, to put up with her moods and
incompatibility, he may realize with
shock all the joy of perfect mutual
understanding and love he is missing.
III Betty keeps on seeing him and
he suddenly decides to marry her in
stead of Claire, our little B. will al
ways have the appalling thought
hanging over her that maybe he
might have married Claire, after all.
Whereas, if she gives G. a clear
field and then Frank comes back to
her, she'll have the comforting Ger.
tainty that he really loves her and no
one else.
I think he's sure to fall back on the
real, sweet, true nature Of the girl
who loves him.
fCopyright 1921