The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-13
By Sophle Kerr

1 joys, Nancy. 1 love Nancy so near " as much as I do young Howard Ithat I'd be puzzled to tell the diff | kerence. And that's a good thing, zoo. Love shouldn't be measured
 -hate shouldn't be treasured. And Ehat about washes us up, Jane and me"
 At her own door she was met by reproachful Nancy. What on earth kept you 50 long? I've been | lying to see you and tell you all.
 That woman: The great big nerve of her! Patronizing me and tell Ing me that Marburg is dump! I | thought she was crazy, asking me | if I wouldn't like to come and vis- it her, and I didn't even know who she was when I went in to Miss Rosa's!"
 My heavens, don't howl around so! She meant to be kind, you | know! She didn't need a lot of preliminaries to invite the child of | one of her oldest friends to see her And she could have given you a very good time"
 'So she informed me, down her nose! Well, I just stared at her, trying so hard to be youthful, and you know, Mother, when you think about a woman how young she ! looks it's sure sign that her real youngness is done. And acting as If Marburg was totally inhabited by moron peasantry! I wouldn't have gone if she had offered me diamond tree and a ruby bush! Mother-I didn't like her-I didn't like her one bit!"
 "Oh. Nancy!" cried Amy in sud- den awful di!imay, don't say that!' It came to her with rush that she could have devised no more terrible judgment of Jane than those words uttered in that way by Jane's own child. She has lots of good qualities. She has, really"
 sometime" said Nancy, still wrath full. Ut won't take more than half a second. The worst thing was, content to settle down like you and live in this dull college life! Oh, was I sore! Mother, look here are you sorry you married Father? Is it so awful to be a faculty lady at a small college? Do you feel hemmed in and thwarted? Did you ever feel that way?"
 There's special reason for your asking that, isn't there? A special reason, with initials R.C.!"
 Gorgeous color flooded Nancy's face. All the more why you should give me the real lowdown. isn't there?" she demanded Amy did not insist on her guess. Nancy should tell her in her own time, in her own way. Instead she answered, honestly: Nancy, I've loved every minute that I've been married to Howard, and-oh, just take good look at me, silly! Do look cramped and thwarted? :? We've never had much money and I've always had to work pretty hard, but we haven't had quarrels and pettiness and commences or misunderstanding or the slight est shadow of unfaithfulness-and those are the things I couldn't bear. No, any way you look at it, I'm a contented, happy woman. Now hustle along and get that gin- gerbread, for here come the two Howard lads with that hollow, rav- ening look all over them" She watched Nancy, gallant and laugh ing, as she went out. Poor old Jane!" she thought, pityingly. | And at the same moment Jane was gazing at her satisfa ctory re- flection in the shining old pier glass in Miss Rosa's parlor, think ing: i've certainly had narrow escape from a wild impulse! must have been gaga to want to take the girl, brought up as she's been, and so obstinate! She'd never have fitted into, my life. And there would always have been the con- trast-of age! I have so much, my home, my friends, my work-any- way you look at it, I'm most happy, contented, fortunate wo- man." She added to herself, smil- | ing. Poor old Amy"
 Copyright, 1884, by Sophie Kerr) | THE END.