The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-24
SYNOPSIS


GYPSY MORELL and TOM
WEAVER are married ON the
same day LILA HOTALING
and DEREK BLISS, but LiIa's
wedding is q society event while
Gypsy's is very simple.
While Lila lives in luxury,
Gypsy has to struggle to keep
expenses within Toms income.
She keeps her Job teaching until
she learns she is to have q baby.
After DAVID'S birth she is ex-
tremely busy, caring for him and
for her home.
Tom is frequently away in the
evening and Gypsy suspects he is
interested in VERA GRAY, who
works In the same Office.
Lila cOnfesses to Gypsy that
she intends to divorce Derek and
marry MARKO BROUGHTON,
richer and older.
A few days later Gypsy, calling
at the Office, sees Tom going to
lunch with Vera. She goes home
heart-brOken and refuses to lis
ten to his explanations.
CHAPTER Xxx
People lived with broken hearts,
Gypsy reminded herself. They went
on ordering food, bathing babies,
making beds, mending stockings.
She wasn't the only woman in the
world to whom this shattering
thing had happened. 1t was-well,
only that she had thought she and
Tom would be different. They had
been deeply in love. They had
started their marriage with a fine
resolve to make 1t go; succeed at
1T, no matter what else happened.
They had friends, fond family,
enough Though not much) money,
little interference. Now, with the
second year of the adventure half
finished, she was disillusioned,
tired and heartsick and Tom was
frankly interested in another wo-
man.
TITS all wrong" Gypsy told
herself stubbornly and angrily.
The whole system is wrong. The
man Is free and the woman tied,
as soon as children come along.
Naturally he's attracted to the
sort Of girl he knew before mar
rage - footloose, always we'll
dressed and groomed and scented.
He sees his wife in her old dress
ing gown, weary and headachy and
overworked. They haven't money
enough for outside amusements.
He gets bored -
AT this stage of her reflections
she usually began to cry. She
cried a great deal these days when
Tom wasn't around. Whe he
was at home they were coldly,
stiffly polite to each other. The
promise Of the earlier April days
had faded and now it rained
colby, steadily, unfeelingly, for
days. Gypsy. was distracted. 1t
meant staying indoors with the
baby. His. endless small garments
were never dry, There were al
ways limp lines of damp things
high in the kitchen. To
crown it all Elsa we'll i'll and
telephoned she would have to
stay in bed for week.
Gypsy struggled with it all
dishes, wash, meals, mending.
she Strengthened
weary back to look about her in
Was this really she,
Gypsy Morell, this tired woman
with the circles under her eyes?
She was never really rested now.
When Tom politely urged her to
get another maid temporarily she
gave him a lifeless look. a bitter
smile that was more cutting than
words. She did not call the
agency. OF assuaged some deep
anger in her, this battle with the
work and her own WEAKNESS.
II can't go on like this;
can't" the girl whispered to her
self one dreary afternoon. April
twilight was closing in and rain
pelted against the windows. Sew
eral blocks away the fog horns
brayed ceaselessly. The grocery
order had been late. David had a
cough and she had been attend
ing him.
Suddenly the whole thing was
too much for her. The thin shell
Of composure which she had been
up for the past week crack
ed and she began to cry wildly,
bitterly, in the silence and gloom
of the little apartment. Everything.
was hateful, dreary, impossible!
The bell rang and she looked
about In a frenzy, snatching at a
to mop her eyes. She
was q fright: she could not pos
sibly see a caller just now. But
when the summons sounded again
long habit drove her to the door
to answer it. Probably. she
thought, it would be the little
tailor around the corner.
Hunt Gibson stood in the door
way, lean, rangy. his soft hat in
his hand, the collar of his luster
turned up. 1--WE been trying to get
you by phone" he began. Then, in
a concerned voice, Gypsy, what's