New Britain herald., 1928-01-20

right away she said. what do you think I'd better do about it?" Mrs. LeXington's lips frightened. | Lily had heard her air her views on , divorce many and many a time, and sine knew she was dead set against it always. But now that the very question of it meant her only daughters future she was all at sea. Her answer showed that.
 ] "Oh. I don't know how to advise you,' she said. locking down at the scrambled eggs that were cold on her plate. "I don't believe in di- vorce--but Pat and you cant live ! together, and Staley wants you and he has everything in the world to 1 lay at your feet. You'll have to figure it out for yourself"
 Once more it struck Lily that her mother had failed her-just as she had failed her on the day when she l had run away to marry Pat. She never had given her the advice that /, she needed when she needed it--and ! yet she was good mother. in her way. She made Lily her clothes she coddled her and petted her and i spoiled her. If you had asked her about it sh would have told you that she had lived for Lily for almost twenty-three years. and still was.
 'Staley cares for you so much that don't know what he'd do it you decided you didn't care for him now" she said and began to carry the soiled breakfast dishes out into the empty kitchen where servant had been at work for so many years, doing the breakfast dishes and carry n 10 o'clock tray upstairs to | the late -slumberinc Lily.
 But those happy days were gone. at least for the time being, and the two women did everything but the washing and ironing themselves. That is. Mrs. Lexington did most of the work while Lily pretended to be
 working and spent hours on end. smoking cigarettes, trying her hair
 in some new way. or just dawdling around the house waiting for Etaley to telephone and tell her how much
 he cared for her.
 Gradually the two of them slipped
 into the ways of a year before when
 they had been half-ensaged.
 Two or three nights a week they
 played bridge with Sue and Jack
 Eastman-usually at staiey's beauti-
 f'il quiet house, where there was al- ways q Jap with little tray of
 glasses and sandwiches at midnight. Just for a nightcap." staley said.
 On Saturday nights they danced
 at the Country club. and on Sundays the I.exingtons' house or the Gains
 house was always filled with the reg
 ular crowd of young gay people that had always been Lily's friends.
 She scarcely ever saw staley alone. and was truly thankful for it. But on Saint Valentines night ht telephoned from his office at st1 o'clock and told her he was coming 10 get her 10 take her to dinner. half hour later he arrived with bo, of pure white gardenias for her.
 Where do you want to so?" ht asked neT. as tney Started down th( steps in the half darkness
 "Oh. some place gay and wild! she told him, smiling sidewise into . his eyes.
 Ii would be easier 10 spend ar evening alone with him some place
 where ther was music to listen to a crowd to watch. It came te her. shocking her, that the though of being alone with him anywhere : was a very dull and depressing
 thought.
 : And yet I'm going to marry hin , in all probability" she said to her } self as le opened the door of hi
 car for her.