The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-02
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Are you cross with Marta about
something? Did Marta
mol 1 am notl"
You'll wake everybody up, shout
ing like that"
Il wasn't shouting. You're stand
ing half in and half out of the
room"
"Oh, well, Cissy, I'm sorry that
you are feeling like this. You've
been going too much-too much
excitement. Grand said this eve
ming that he hadn't seen you for
three days"
IF he'd get out of bed and come
down to breakfast he'd see me-"
yes, 1 know. And next week
you'll be at home. Grand and Ro-
sale are old, of course. It doesn't
seem right to fuss and worry them.
Still, if you have made a definite
engagement with Barry for tomor-
row afternoon and evening, 1 sup
pose I can manage"
An engagement for tomorrow aft
ernoon? None. For tomorrow eve
ming? None. No more engagements,
ever So that was what Marta had
been up to, Sinking through the
room and Cabling.
That the girl had intended no
good, Cecily had been confident
from the moment of her entrance.
That it would be wiser to ignore her.
to refuse to listen to her, Cecily had
also known.
But now there was no evading, no
escaping Marta. Honestly! She
came forward in an utterly ravish-
ing chiffon rag that rippled around
her ankles and shouted, "Remem-
ber!"
NTARY-FRANCE who had been
4V1 in the kitchen replenishing
her bowl with cereal, returned to
the dining room, singing loudly,
" 'Tis love that makes us happy.
Tis love that smooths the way "
She took her place at the table,
reached for the cream pitcher, and
began again, still not softly, ""Tis
love that makes us happy"
Ann protested, "Well. Mary
Frances, I must say! It's a good
thing Grand and Rosalie aren't
down to listen to you singing at the
table"
"And I must say" retorted Mary
Frances, that Cissy isn't hurrying
very fast"
"Hurrying?" Cecily questioned.
why should hurry? It isn't late"
Gust poking along" Mary
Frances reproached, with a bitter
touch, "Just munching. Not hurry
irg at ALL"
"Munching!" Cecily repudiated.
L am not. Where did you ever
pick up such a word?"
'Mincing," Mary-Frances sub
stituted. mot hurrying at ALL
Ann and Cecily exchanged wor-
ried glances. Frances, of late,
was so often-well, at least odd.
But, dear" Ann said, "why
should Cissy hurry? Did you wish
her to hurry for some reason?"
mo, don't care" Mary-Frances
dismissed any suggestion of per-
sonal interest by lifting her Shout
ders and dropping them and hum
ming little.
IF you'll come into the music
ROOM" Cecily offered, I'll play your
accompaniment"
"You would" remarked Mary
Frances.
Ann said, Mary Frances, I want
you to stop being so rude. 1t seems
to me you are just trying to be
naughty this morning"
Naughty! That was nice, wasn't
it? That was going just a little
too far. Naughty-to a person who
had memorized, from Rosalie'S
padded satin-bound book, Delicate
Love Poems of the Nineteenth Cen
tury,' only the night before: "'Well,
you can, you must set down to me,
Love that is Life-Life that is Love.
A tenure of breath at your lips de-
cree, a passion to stand as your
thoughts approve, a rapture to fall
where your foot may be-" Yes, she
knew it by heart. "'Well, you can,
you must"
And" Ann continued, ct won't
have you moving your lips and
muttering to yourself like that
Mary-Frances. Why don't you an
Swer me?"
n n
It DIDN'T hear you, did I? ]
l. was thinking of something
What does t, e, n, u, +, e, mean?'
Tenure? Notwithstanding tc
do with real estate" Ann said. "Iu
ask Phil. He'll know exactly"
so would the dictionary sug-
gested Cecily. But I think il
means"
"Holding?" interrupted Mary