The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-27
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SYNOPSIS

NuuO 1ah8 uVeS m IuXury, @ypsy has to struggle to keep expenses within Toms income. She keeps her job teaching until she learns she is to nave a baby. After DAVID'S birth she is ex- eremely busy, caring for him and For her home.
 Tom IS frequently away in the
 vening and Gypsy suspects he is Interested in VERA GRAY, who works in the same office.
 IAla cOnfesses to Gypsy that 9abe intends to divorce Derek and marry MARKO ERADICATION, richer and older.
 A few days after Gypsy, caIl- ng at the office, sees Tom going eO lunch with Vera. She goes home heart-broken and refuses Co listen to his explanations.
 At midnight she learns her kather has been seriously injured in Q motor accident.
 CHAPTER XXXII
 Lila said patiently, i've told you over and over again. want to be
 Derek, tall and handsome in kweeds his stormy dark eyes pug zled, asked What's gone wrong? I don't know. I've tried. Oh, sweets, there must be something we can do ."
 Lila rose from her place by the lire and stared out of the window at the lights which spangled the city below her. Kong came in noiselessly and carried away the coffee tray. The big room with its rich rugs and dark, subdued furni- ture was very quiet.
 Tt was a mistake from the start, think" she said evenly. It was being harder than she had ex- pected and in spite of her outward appearance of calm her heart was beating thickly. If Derek should find out that, after all this, she meant to marry Marko, his little boy attitude of puzzled hurt would be changed. But he must not find out!
 "I'm not your sort" she con- tinued, holding out her long, supple ringed hands to the blaze. "We don't think the same way. Confess your idea of life is not mine."
 N-no. Frankly, it isn't" Derek said. "But, after all, marriage means concessions. I've made some suppose you have, although in the main our life has been as you wanted it. But it was forever. You and I both said that we pledged it, not two years ago"
 "I know. I know" She stirred impatiently. How could she make him see?
 "It's just that--well, I don't feel the same any more. l don't-don't love you any more."
 The man in the deep chaar mov- ed as though to ward off blow. His dark face paled suddenly.
 I'm sorry," Lila said quickly."I didn't mean to hurt you. But you just wouldn't see :"
 Derek rose. How tall he was, she thought idly. How good looking, too, in an unconventional way. But although he was a dear he could never give her what she wanted. Marko could and, besides, Marko was terrifcally attractive.
 'i didn't understand His tone was extremely formal. No casual onlooker would have known he had just received a mortal blow.
 'I'll go to Reno, of course," Lila said quickly. "It will be easy. There needn't be any publicity un- til it's all over."
 "Oh, you have planned it all Out", Derek said with dreadful po- liteness. She threw out her hands in kesture of despair. You're being 50 difficult" she told him.
 "Sorry." He had his hands plunged deep into the pockets of his coat. His face was a white mask. The worst had happened. He had been expecting this, dread ing it, for weeks. If you made failure of marriage. thought Derek bleakly, it meant you were fail ure in everything else. He did not share the light sentiments of most of Lila's crowd, who changed life partners as casually as they changed their clothes.
 That there was another man he did not for a moment doubt. But who? He reviewed all the young gallants who swarmed to Lila cocktail parties. She treated them all very much alike. But had some- thing escaped him in her attitude toward any special one?
 He groaned. This was all so ugly s-so unspeakably sordid!
 'I'm sorry, Derek," Lila said prettily, gracefully. Whatever this slim, fair-haired, ciear,sklnned young woman did would always be pretty and graceful. Even when she was a small girl mothers had said, "Why aren't you like Lila Hotaling? She has such charming manners :" Now that she had got her way she could afford to be generous with Derek. And, after all, they were civilized people. Why couldn't they be friends? There wasn't the least reason in the world.
 She told Marko about it over tea table in a shaded corner ol a hotel lounge. Lila was all in beige to-day-little close beige hat like the plummage of a soft-feath- cred bird, silky beige frock with creamy frills at the throat. There were gloves of the same delicate color thrown on the couch behind her with full soft silver fox scarf.
 "You handled it well - superbly ln fact" Marko approved. He leaned over to pat her hand and for the barest instant Lila winced. Marko's hand was plump, well cushioned; the nails were meticu- lously manicured. It was the sight of it that recalled, by contrast, Derek's slim, long fingers clench- ing and unclenching themselves as they had the night before.
 Hell get over it." Marko pro- phesied. "He'll marry again"
 ''Do you think so?" Lila was not entirely sure she liked this.
 "Certain to-" Marko nodded. pHe's attractive"
 "Oh, he is that" Lila almost eossed her head. Of course Derek was attractive. Hadn't she married him?
 s'It will all have to be done very smoothly, very quietly, of course", Marko murmured. Lila nodded her agreement. They had been all over this ground before. A year must elapse before their engagement was announced. No one would suspect then that Lila had meant to marry Marko all the time. A year was such a decent interval. Why, 4nns,feA lila nraftilV Ynoef neonla