The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-19
Ma,r1e0 &dtb +'.= ..ss z=4eH
SYNOPSIS

GypSy keeps ncr yOD tetfcnlng in 3 settlement school.
 Gypsy has to struggle to keep expenses within Toms income,
 Another problem is Toms Jealousy of wealthy MARKO BROUGHTON, a fOrmer admirer of Gypsy's, whom they meet at the Blisses' home.
 Why Gypsy learns she is to have a baby she gives up her job. The baby is born in Septem-
 Der and is christened DAVID.
 Derek and Lila are constantly involved in Q gay social whirl. Derek dislikes this and one night when he begs of from a. party Lila goes with MarIzo. Marko tells her he is mad about her.
 CHAPTER XIV
 Flirting of course, Lila was Familiar with. She had fiirted be- fore. It was part of the game meant nothing. But this feeling for Marko, this slow dawning of ex- cttement and suspense, was some thing new. It was because of this that she had meant to ask Gypsy a question when she had called at the little Long Island house. Had Gypsy really cared for Marko? Lila was devoured with curiosity about it. She knew Gypsy had been in the study that day last winter when she had dropped by to have tea with the great man. Lila had slipped into the dressing room to give Gypsy chance to leave. Not that she believed Gypsy's presence there was anything but innocent; far from it. Still it was odd. Lila had given Gypsy dozen chances to explain the encounter, but had received no explanation.
 We'll. It didn't matter now. Mar ko was staring at Lila as if he'd like to eat her alive. She was used to adoring looks and, for all she knew, this might be part of Mar kos famous technique. But it made her all shivery from head to foot, this expression. You played at the game of love; you went through all the motions--notewri din- ing together at some little place and 1t was all game. You didn't expect it to go real on you.
 Was Marko in earnest? His rep utation as a playboy was city-wide. Then there was that woman-that Flo something or other who Derek said was Marko's common law wife. But did she matter?
 All this flashed through Lila's mind in far less time than it takes to describe. Aloud she said coolly sDon't trifle with gals affections, my friend"
 "Little devil!" He said it admir- ingly. Lila laid her cigaret down and smiled at him.
 ."Shall we go now?"
 They were silent as they went down the magnificent staircase. s'Night, Mir Broughton. Good night, madam" She had her white fur wrap cIutched around her. The rain had stopped and it was cold with a March wind blowing up from the river.
 Now Marko was beside her in the car. She sat, daintily with drawn. It was eXciting-conducti n mild affair with him. Life went Awfully dead on you unless you were buoyed up by some inner eX- citement. And it wouldn't do any harm to play around with Marko. Derek was making a noise like husband these days. Lila found 1t Giresome.
 So. she let Mark hold her hand, Let him whisper extravagant com nliments to her. It was all part Of a delicious game. She wouldn't let nim kiss her--not just yet, at least.
 Derek was asleep when she got home At least his door was closed and she decided not to disturb him, She glanced at herself in the mirror with quiet approval. A mans admiration certainly did something to you, she reflected. See how bright her eyes were! why, It was 0 tonic to have some one po- litely in love with you.
 Lila smiled at herself approv- ngly. o wide-eyed, thinking. Hunt had left around Il, and Tom had not returned. How amusing the tall young engineer with the slate gray eyes had been, and what pretty speeches he had made to her with Dut being in the least foolish or fiirtatious, It did something to you, having a man so obviously admir- ine. It bolstered up your self-re- spect. Domesticaly certainly did nothing of the sort and, although Tom still told her she was lovely and adorable, he said so at longer intervals now. With those business friends of his, she had been weighed down by a feeling or dullness, quite foreign to her usual state of happy assurance. She was wife. She had the dignity and assurance or the wanted woman. But something had happened to her ego of late. Dishes and beds, bottles and maps and routine had taken the edge off the first gay adventure of marriage Were they going stale, Tom and she? The thought frightened her brought her to a full stop. They mustn't lose the precious thing they had found. They must work and struggle to keep it.
 The baby stirred and she rose Co see that he was covered. She glanced at the luminous dial Of the clock, Half past two! Suddenly she was angry. It was too bad of Tom, really, to behave like this. Suspicion darted into her mind and lodged there. Business, indeed! ie had seemed so preoccupled or late' had often stayed to work overtime. There was something here that she had missed. How stupid she had been! from the river and she drew the blankets close, unable to keep from Ehiyering. Just then she heard door softly open and close, heard her husbands step in the hall. He was putting his things away in the hall closet. He would undress in the bathroom, so as not to disturb her. She smiled ironically at the thought. As though she were asleep!
 Presently he came in quietly and biipped into the other bed. Gypsy could hear his regular breathing he was asleep in five minutes. She had not uttered a word. But the fact that he had gone off into a peaceful slumber irritated her. Ii lt were not for the baby she would have turned on the bedside lamT and wakened him, asked for an ex- planation. But David Weaver sleep was sacred, must not be dis turbed.
 She woke to a sense of futillty and Encouragement. What haC