The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-11
SYNOPSIS

SHNOPSlS
 JANE TERRY comes to New York determined to show her home town and especially AMY JACKSON that she can make a success of her life. Amy had been her best friend until HOW. ARD JACKSON broke the en- Eagement Jane forced on him and married Amy. Unable to pfness, Jane obtains q job in New York real estate office.
 Jane is clever and soon is mak- ing an excellent salary. She has an affair with ROGER THORPE business acquaintance who is married. Later she tires of him, and when he offers to bear the expense of their child she dis misses him contemptuously.
 CHAPTER XIV
 I'm going," Roger Thorpe said. But Jane - if you need me, if you want me"
 I'll never need you. I'll never want you" Her voice, for all its level quality, was like a whip lash Were through-I don't even want you to speak to me if you see me on the street. And stay away from here. That reminds me-give me your key. Very thoughtful of you to ring this morning."
 "I always ring when Kitty's here"
 "As if Kitty didn't know. Don't be silly"
 There was a pause and Thorpe. signing, rose to leave. "Jane," he asked, hesitatingly. How are you off for money?"
 q am all right, and it doesn't concern you anyway"
 "I couldn't go without asking you. If you should happen to need any, just call me up."
 Where? At your house?'
 Thorpe sighed again. You're queer girl. There's only one thing more l can say, that I'm sorry from the bottom of my heart. I'm sorry and ashamed. I feel so rotten getting out and leaving you alone"
 You may feel rotten, but you're relieved, too. If only I'll hold my tongue, if only I'll not bother you, that's all you hope. You'll wake up at night and go cold all over wondering what would happen if I came along again and wasn't in- clined to be discreet This will be a good lesson to you not to make love to any more girls in the off, flee, Roger"
 Thorpe winced, turned resentful. "Since we're giving advice, I'll give some to you. Don't take another lover unless you really love him. Remember that. It makes a differ ence. And goodby, Jane.'
 At the closing of the door Jane All she was rid of him. And glad of it. He's a coward" she thought Hes weak. He's not honest about anything. What made me do 1t! What made me! I knew exactly the sort he was all the time, ex. cept maybe right at first"
 She put her head down on her hands and let the scenes of her relationship with Thorpe drift slowly up from her memory. His first kindness, when she was find irg the office stale and difficult; ana then, his personal interest, and her response, fiattered and confi- dent. Aunt Rosa would have said it was my vanity again, and maybe 1t was!"
 She had felt so sophisticated, so
 
 that the marriage ceremony was no more than mbo-jumbo, meaning less to honest minds, worthless to honest lovers, just lot of words that tie up people into an incon- venient, stifling intimacy. She had not minded in the least that Thorpe himself was married. She was, she told him, above the pettiness of wanting legal possession of his. name. And to tell the truth, her views along that line had not al tered at all. She was honestly glad she hadn't married him. He had lost his interest for her and the glamour of her imagined courage and even more imaginary supe- riority to less daring women had be rid of him. He had become a wearying nuisance.
 At first, she admitted 1t had all seemed wonderful. The apartment and furnishing it, getting used to living in it and ordering Kitty about had been gorgeous fun. Thorpe came and went discreetly. He didn't embarrass her. He was importantly romantic, ardent enough to make her more than sure that men, grown-up men of the world, found in her no lack of attraction, even if the boys she had known in Marburg had fought shy of her.
 Then there was the amusement of the intrigue at the office, of meeting formally there and pre- tending to be unaware of each other, though they had established a simple set of signs-if Jane sent