The Washington times., 1931-01-24
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CHAPTER A

CHAPTER A
Mrs. calvert's eyes we're
steady, but clouded with pain
and sympathy.
II know better than to try
to interfere, or contradict, what
your heart tells you" she said
to Connie, "but no one-not
even a person in love-is to-
tally independent. Our lives
are so knit together. What
reaches me-and I know you
won't do anything without
knowing how it touches me-"
IT don't intend to elope or
anything so hasty as that"
Connie said. her tone tremu-
lous, but I can't be RESPONSE
BILE for my feeling, can II"
"I know, dear-I went
through the sama thing when
I fell in love with your father.
I suppose the thing is written
in the stars and there's no
way to avoid it,"
"Why don't you like Duke
Carson, mother?" Connie asked
her.
Haste Not Necessary
Il do like him-as a per-
son. When it comes to con-
sidering him as a husband I'm
not so sure. Perhaps, though.
he may be the one man on
earth for you'll don't know.
All I do know is that I've got
a sensation of doubt surround
ing him; but I do know this
II he is the right man for you
there need be no haste. Time
proves all things. Walt, ana
study your own heart
Her mother said this so Sc
riously that a touch OF humor
came to Connie, perversely.
"Oh. mother, you sounoeo
tust like an Advice to the
Lovelorn column" she laughed.
"And you've been sounding
like one of the perplexed young
ladies who get into difficult
ties" her mother smiled
'"Their problems are quite as
real as yours, I imagine. II
is so difficult to make you
see the necessity of truths
A spark of rebellion for the
first time shone dimly in Con-
MES eyes.
"T,1I have nv whole lifetime
after something happens to me
to be prevent I know it's com
mon sense to be careful, but l
really do want to be reckless
really do, mother. All of my life
I've been careful, oh much more
careful than lots of other girls
I know. You think you know me-
mother, but you don't"
Connie Is Secretive
"1 know YOU" fer mother re-
piled, discerningly; "or rather
Il remember it"
"There have been lots OF
things that 7 have never told
YOU about" Connie went on,
laughingly. Maybe it is the
same with all other girls, but I
think it was more so with me
a feeling that sometimes I was
literally starving for love; maybe
it isn't nice thing to admit, but
sometimes it will come over me
wave by wave. When I got older
and learned more I thought I
had inherited such things from
my father, but I inherited a
streak of prudence from you, I
suppose. At any rate, there has
always been an eternal battle
raging inside me. Sometimes
when I had seemed cool and
aloof I had been burning up.
think that is one reason why
I had never been as reckless as
other girls-I didn't dare be. Al
ways. my self-respect was
stronger than-than any wild
ness. When I was engaged to
Jim Tracy he never stirred any
of that in me at all, but when
am with Duke Carson I am so
terribly disturbed-I weary of
fighting myself. I wonder if that
means love-"
Such things, her mother re-
sponded, were indeed part of
love.
But there is so much more to
love than mere feeling" her
mother assured her. There must
be kind of delicacy and gen
tleness, a throb of beauty-or it
Is worse than nothing"
"And sympathy" Connie
added.
sympathy ways" her
mother agreed
Strange Feeling