The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-18
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grandparents are known respec- lively as .sRosalie'' and "Grand" and they insist on keeping up pre-. tenses of their former wealth.
 Anne, 2S, and Cccily, 22, do sec retarial work and Mary-Frances, fS. is still in school. When the story opens Anne has been en- gaged to PHILIP ECROYD, young lawyer, for eight years. They can not marry because Anne knows her sisters and grandparents de- pend on her toAnanage their home.
 Cecily brings BARRY McKEEL home to dinner with her. She Is falling in lovo with him. Mary. Frances and her friend, ERMIN- TRUDE, are excited about the ar. rival of . stock company actor known as EARL DE ARMOUNT. They meet him on the street and he speaks to them. Mary-Frahccs is thrilled. agrees to meet him that night after the performance. She tells him she Is 10, fails to note the cheapness of his love. making and after that first meet ing promises to sec him again.
 Next morning Cccfly talks o Anne about Barry.
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 CHAPTER XVI
 He turned and walked quickly away, Mary Frances stood stock still. One does not willingly step out on red-hot knives. She would wait until he was on the sidewalk, and then she'd take off those slip pers, and she didn't care if she ruined her best stockings and--But why didn't he go on? Couldn't he hurry even little?
 He had glanced over his shoui- der had stopped. He came back to her. You'd ought to go Tn baby" he said almost tenderly. ,,
 A small, strained. "Yes, dear'
 "I.isten, sweetness" he asked oaaiv. would you like to meet me here again tomorrow night?"
 If she said yes she'd be rid of him at once. But Grand's speech, delivered during dinner that even ing, remained strong in her mind. T can't tomorrow" she said. But day after tomorrow, hearts dear- est, can. Goodby."
 s'A1l right" he said, and if mag nanimity were there Mary-Frances did not notice it. You're on. Same time. same place ,and same little sweetie."
 At the first clip of his heels on the cement sidewalk Mary-Frances nried of the slippers and said, "Ouch! Ouch!" and when her rect hattened and spread on the cool grass she m6ared aloud with the felicity of her relief before she yawned. picked up the slippers. ana went padding toward the house: composing "He saids" and saids for the unplumbed depths or Ernintrude's ears.,
 oeciiy half opened her eyes and said, "Um- -unl-- 'Smatter! ~ Ann, who was stealing across 'ne bedroom toward the bureau.
 SNothing." Ann answered, and pio,sed up Cecilys alarm clock and nuahed the Indicator to the "Silent" sidA. stGo back to sleep, dear. I'm mp. anyway. I'll get breakfast this morning and cali you in plenty or time." - mured, severely tempted. Stil there was something, wasn't there! Somethinr different and exciting! Somethin1 wonderful? Barry! He waa alive and here in this oity, ana there was another engagement bIissfully definite, for this very evening. Brightly, eagerly awake she scrambled out of the deep hol- low in the center of her bed ana perched on its edge and reached for, her slippers. ..,
 'sHe thinks you are beautiful Ann. And he's fussy about beauty. He doesn't think Marta IS even good Looking. And he thinks It IS so fine that you aren't vain. He says most really beautiful women ruin their beauty by the. way they wear it-iike flowers pinned up. side-down, you know. He says
 "Who does?" said Ann.
 Cecily gasped before she laughed: "rinSher1h." she answered. Who'd YOU suppose?" and reached for the oid dingy blue bathrobe on the foot
 .iI'm more interested" Anne said. "in what Lindbetgh thinks about you"
 earnest again. "That is-he always saws lovely And, of course. Pm not beautiful. But think 1t IS betetr than pretty. What do you
 "I think" Anne answered, as she walked to the door, "that he Is in love with you. Isn't that what I'm supposed to think, Cissy?" '
 Anne, I don't know. Truly, :! can't tell. He says something, ana then We'll, I don't know. I'm choking to find out. He likes me lot. I'm sure or that. But he's sort .of-shy of love. or queer about N' l think
 "No, I don't moan that way. Barry's different. He is entirely different from any other man i've ever known. He" ,..
 Anne interrupted. T must run on down and start breakfast. But [ want to tell you something while I have a chance without Mary Frances around. If you haven't made a dinner engagement with Barry for this evening, perhaps you'd better not. See him after dinner, if you like, but come home for dinner. Grand"
 "But I have made one! And I'm going to keen 1t. Dear heavens. has Grand found his leading strings again? Will he take 1t out on you, angel, if I go?"
 "No-I don't care if he does. This is 1t: Grand did fuss because you were gone last evening for dinner-but that didn't matter. Ar ter dinner, though, Ermintrude came over. and for some reason that seemed to get both Grand and Rosalie started on that same old stuff about our never having friends here--music and merri- ment and laughter in our home, YOU know. They just kept at 1t. and went from bad to worse, and then Rosalie had to remember your birthday, a week from tomorrow, and they are insisting upon. giving you a birthday party. couldn't