New Britain herald., 1927-07-15
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"Oh, but I dol" Sally told him solemnly. T like you fine, Ted Sloan. And I'd rather dance with you than do anything I can think of. But hate this!"
 She spread out her arms as If to show him that what she meant by this was the warm darkness, the solitude, the romance of the summer night
 T guess I'm sort of hard-hearted and cold" she finished with little | laugh.
 Cold as Greenland's icy noun tains" Ted agreed with her. You sure are, and no mistake about it." l But whether he really thought her cold or not, he was not willing to l leave her right away. He stood there beside her, puffing at the pipe that he picked up from the porch rail, and went on talking in a low tone, almost as If he were talking to him. self.
 You see, all along I've thought you were as keen about me as I was about you" he said. T knew l wasn't making much money, but l knew I'd be making more pretty soon. And l thought you could keep on working for a while after we were married-and look after the house nights and mornings, like you do now for your mother. It wouldn't be so hard"
 No, it wouldn't be so hard. said Sally to herself, her eyes on the dark roofs of the houses on the next street. But somehow the pie ture that Ted was painting for her with his words wasn't the way she had always pictured her married life, when love and marriage should come to her.
 | She had always thought of her self as a home-maker as well as a wife and a lover. She had im- agined herself working all day long in a little house with little garden somewhere. Getting together nice little supper that wouldn't cost much but would be deliciously cook ed. Rushing upstairs at the end of the day to powder her nose and fluff up her hair for the return of hus- banda husband who was certainly not Ted Sloan in her widest dreams. That was Sally's idea of marriage. and it had no part-time office job in it. Why getting married to Ted o,,I o{ +y1yo n1, ,rrny h.a almost like life as it was now. Never enough time to do anything well. Never enough money to do anything as it should be done.
 But even that wouldn't be so bad if loved him." thought Sally.
 She turned and put her strong, capable little hands on his shoulders for just an instant.
 Ted, we're such very good friends cant we stay friends and forget all this love stuff" she asked him. You don't really care for me. I'm sure of it. You just think you do.'
 He shook his head silently. She didn't know what the little negative movement meant. and while she was wondering he turned and went pad ding down the steps to the porch below.
 "Oh, you poor paluka!" Sally call ed after him cheerfully. She felt more cheerful, somehow, now that he was going. "Oh, your poor paluka, why don't you let well enough alone?"
 In the little bedroom with its two beds set close to each other, Millie was waiting for her.
 She was sitting beside the open window, letting the warm night breeze blow in upon her half-dry hair, and she was peacefully ripping up Sally's black satin dress with an old safety-razor blade.
 Christopher Colombo! What are you doing to my dress?" asked Sally, her eyes wide.
 Mille lifted her head. Cant you see, Dumb Dolly" she asked in her slow, slippery little voice. "Rippin' up this dress you threw away"
 
 T threw away! Why, l never did any such thing!" declared Sally. And you know it. l told you it wasn't any good the way it was, and I-'
 And you said you were through with it." broke in Millie. She plac- idly ripped a few more inches of seam with her blade.
 I'm goin' to make bathing suit out of it." she added. Its no good for anything else. You can have what's left for your scrap bag
 T can have whats left for my scrap bag! Well, that's good, isn't it?" asked Sally She was scarlet with indignation. She had been counting on wearing that dress for another two months-until 1t was cold enough to buy a cloth dress for the winter.
 She rushed across the room and pulled the shining black stuff from her sisters hands, rolled it up and laid it at the foot of her bed.