The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-14
Chapter 2s :, ABOUT LIFE

 { ABOUT LIFE < IT was Nicholas who broke the si ! lence. bringing Georgie down from her seventh heaven with a s faint shock. ; "So you had a good time this i afternoon. Robin," he said. g"I had good lunch" she admit tied. "rye never had such lunch in my life. We started with melon, and cold soup. and we finished up with ice pudding with ho. chocolate sauce all over it."
 Tt all sounds bit chiliy,"' Mich. olas said.
 Tt wasn't" Georgie answered. "We had hot things in between. should like to have a lunch like that every day"
 You'd soon get tired of it. One gets tired Of everything"
 Do they?" Georgie sounded doubtful. I've never had very much to get tired of"
 That's where you are fortunate" i" he told her. "It's when people have 8 surfeit of everything that they get bored and weary and begin to look round for something which they can't have"
 What things they can't have%
 "ThingsS which belong to other people,"
 Like other peoples husbands" l" Georgie thought. She felt rather than saw that he turned to look at her.
 T envy you" he said suddenly. "You know so little of. life-and you will have such fun finding out all about it."
 "Did you find it fun?"
 "Did I? Well. found 1t out very differently from the way you will. l found 1t out artificialiy, among people who don't really count a great deal"
 "I think film people count enor- mously. if you mean them" Georgie said. Look at the pleasure they give people like me. Why, before I ever knew you, you'd given me so much to think about" she broke on.
 And since you've known me, the great disillusion has set in, l SUD- pose" Boyd said cynically. Its a mistake for people like me ever to . appear in the flesh. Not that count Z one iota now"
 You count a lot of iotas," Geor- gie said quaintly More iotas to : me now than you did before" There was little silence. then Boyd said,
 Some day. Robin. you will make . man very happy"
 She laughed a little tremulously. l II would much. rather that some man made me happy" she told him. T think 1t must be wonderful to have someone all your very own. to know that when he comics to the house. he comes to see you: to know that you can write to him and tell him how much you love him with. out 1t being thought perfectly aw- ful; to know that if you're unhappy you can rush to him and tell him all about it and be sure that he'll un. derstand and be kind" tt nOYD said: T am afraid there are not many men in the world who would come up to your ideals, Rob- In"
 Georgie sighed. And if there were, they'd all be married, I ex- pect," she said unthinkingly.
 They had reached the five-barred gate now. where they had stopped and talked the first morning after Nicholas came to the Boar's Head, and unconsciously they stopped now.
 Georgie leaned her arms on the gate and stared up at the moon. Tt seems funny that everyone in the world looks at the same moon. doesn't it?" she said suddenly. We here. and Mother in America. and tomorrow you in Germany. By the way, Mother is coming home. She arrives next Friday. the twenty second." she added with sudden re- 1iembrance of that cable.
 Docs she? Are you glad?"
 T don't know. I suppose l ought 10 be-"
 There was a little silence. then Boyd said abruptly: Your friend Asher <. is his father doctor by &ny chancc?"
 Georgie did some swift thinking. If she said yes. Nicholas might tAink she had been dfsenssing him