The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-13
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your salad like that"
 "I cant help 1t if 1t strings, can I?"
 "Of course you can. Cut it with your fork"
 "'Stoo tough. It won't" "Darlings darlings," RosalieN in- serted. Birds In their little nests love one another" tCissy, tho mean thing, said that Rosalie was bird minded)
 And where" Grand demanded, not even looking for the spoon, lis our Cecily, may 1 ask?"
 Anne said, "She has gone out with MT McKeel. Grand. You liked him, didn't you?"
 Il do not know that l did. l do not form my opinions of any per- son from one short interview The fact that Cecily grants to a com parative stranger all of her spare time, dsrcgarding her home ties, disreg garding, almost, I might say the conventions of polite society, do not like. No" Grand shook his head and began to serve the macaroni as if he had no idea as to what he was doing-"that l do not like. Merely because a young gentleman is attracted to a young lady is insufficient reason for the lady to grant him the pleasure of her company whenever and wher- ever he may choose o'seek it. She does not gain his respect thereby. She may-I say only 'may-gain his disrespcct. It is not wise. It is not--and this may appeal more strongly to youth than the issues of convention and wisdom-it is not expedient. It is not" Grand frowned. Interruptions he said, "are not, my darling, in the best of taste. However, since you have interrupted, you may now make your question more clear" What question:" said Mary Frances.
 Grand brought his white eye brows closer together and turned the wrathful expression so attained not on Mary-Frances but hard on Anne.
 "Courtship, Rosalie's sweet voice arrived in the nick of time, lis not the same today as 1t was in our day, Jonathan dear"
 Ut is not" said Grand. "It is not indeed. Nor does it," he pro- ceeded, still drowning straight at Anne, apparently culminate as it was wort to eliminate in our day."
 "How?" said Mary Frances.
 "In marriage, my darling.' said Grand, choosing to understand the question so. "ln marriage"
 "All of them ?"'questioned Nary Frances intensely
 Grand, who prided himself upon having q sense of humor, though for long stretches of time he forgot all about having it, remembered 1t now and laughed heartily. (Grand always laughed heartily if he laughed at all. except the times when he "chuckled.D
 Rosalie laughed with him. She had found one of the successes of married life in always laughing with her husband. Mary-Frances, at an age when laugher at her ex- pense was the iron, squirmed and sulked, and Anne could smile but faintly. It was sort of mean to laugh at the precious baby, and besides, Anne was still disturbed by the notion that Grand was blaming her for something, and she had no way of discovering what it could be.
 The telephone bell rang. The Fenwick family declared, along with several million other families in the United States, that their telephone never rang except at meal times. Mary Frances jumped to answer it. Maybe it's Ermin- trude," she said.
 If it is," Ann warned, "don't make any plans for this evening. Phil has an engagement, and l want you to help me clean the front hall"
 "Oh, Ermintrude," said Mary Frances, who was not one to hold a Grudge against her best friend and sole confidant. Yes, 1 have my algebra"
 Gro bc Continued)