The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

If Amy Kerr had one iota of sense," she was thinking all the while. "she wouldn't have sug- Rested another rubber of bridge at ii o'clock. Nor would she be up on the roof now airing her blue dress! Airing her dress, my grandmother. She's never been so fussy before. What made her want to go up on the roof at 12 o'clock?"
 Cilly grabbed her pajamas from the hook on the bathroom door and jumped into them unceremoniously. Amy might at least have realized that 1t was nervewracking to have the door unlocked when one was taking a bath. But tonight Amy was certainly inconsiderate.
 q won't be minute, Cilly. |. I'm just going up on the roof to Air this blue dress so that l can wear 1t tomorrow. It smells like a gasoline station now. .. Leave the door open, that's dear"
 WELL, N certainly was long w minute. More like 20.
 Cilly went into the bedroom they shared together and sat down at the frilled dressing table. This was the moment of the daily hairbrushing- 100 strokes. It wasn't al accident that Cilly's dull auburn hair shone 50 richly.
 Seven, eight, nine, ten.
 Just a minute, to air this blue dress. Tommyrotl Cilly was thor oughly annoyed at Amy Kerr to- night. And not a little annoyed at herself for being such a jealous fool. It wasn't as if Amy was different nerson by nature. She wasn't. Sne was a peach. In the two months thev had shared the apartment, Cilly and Amy had grown as close as sisters.
 cilly had been doubtful at first about taking a strange girl h to share her home, but she had never regretted doubling up with Amy Kerr. And with expenses just anout cut in half, they were already pan ming 8 trip to the West Indies tnat winter. That is, if nothing happened in the meantime.
 Seven, eight, nine, twenty.
 If nothing happened in the mean time. Actually, Cilly was thinking "If Jim doesn't insist on getting married before then" He'd been on the point of 1t dozen times, Cilly knew, but something always held him back.
 "Oh, Cilly, darling!"-it was Jim who had chriStened her "Cilly" in place of the prim and pure "Pris- cilla" for her great-grandmother-- "Oh, Cilly, if I could only run oil with you right this very day you do love me, don't you, darling? You will wait for me, no matter what happens?"
 Wait for him! Hadn't she waited 27 years for someone exactly like Jim Kerrigan? If she waited an- other thousand years, would she ever find anyone else SO utterly dear, so thoughtful, so tender?
 Seven, eight, nine, forty. ..
 He'd never said exactly just what held him back, but Cilly understood It was his new job. He had only been in New York a little over six months; he had to make good be- fore he could ask girl to marry him. She could well afford to bt patient.
 Seven. eight, nine. sixty. ...
 Or could she?
 TrOR the first time since she hac U known Jim, she felt a little twinge of uncertainty. These past few months 1t had been just Jim and she-just the two of them to- gether. Dancing at the French Casino. Swimming at oJnes Beach Looping the loop at Coney Island Cooking hot dogs over campfire at Hillside Park. Holding hands at the Paramount. Stealing a kiss downstairs in the vestibule just two people in all New York. Cilly Pierce and Jim Kerrigan.
 Until tonight.
 Until this very evening when she had suggested to Amy that they invite their respective beaus in for a quiet Sunday evening. "So we can all get to know each other better, she had said to Amy. -Four people can have so much more fun together than just two"
 We'll, they certainly got to know each other better Jim and Amy, at ony rate. You'd have thought they'd known each other all their lives. The way Any,s eyes lighted up when she introduced them .. the whereve- -you-beer- -all-my-life look that Jim gave Amy.
 Seven, eight. nine, eighty. ...
 It was just too bad she couldn't