Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-07-17

How long since you've had your hair
snampooed. Maude2"
Five weeks"
SeOrge takes you out tonight"
I'm busy"
laine
Then Pet, not knowing anything
ABOUT the long George-seance with
Maoelaine, turned the bath on for
And give yourself jolly good scrub
because you're going out with George,
haauule, she said, as If Maude were
Two And do you a lot Of good to
sluice down with cold water after"
Maude refused to get up.
She lay there planning her book
all day and smiling vague. sweet. OBJ
stinate smiles.
They brought her lunch. They
brought her tea They argued, coaxed.
They used George as a plea-and a
pattering ram. George would be so
'grleved" and so disguised" to find her
IN bed with her hair uncombed and I'M
bathed.
They treated her like a naughty
girl, which in a way, she was. She
retaliated by behaving like one.
What they did not realize was that
it was cause and effect" created by
years Of their own attitude and at
tempted control of a type and person.
atty alien to their own.
At o'clock George came to take
Maude to the theater.
She was still in bed
She had not stirred all day.
Madelaine was just explaining she
wasn't well" when the door opened
and Maude, uncombed, her dressing
gown dragged round her, walked in.
She said
I'm not i'll. George. Don't believe
II. I had grand idea for book and /
wanted to work it out; so l stayed /
In bed"
well, why not2" said George.
He was very quiet, rather white. He .
had common sense. He saw that his /
little lady was on the edge /
Of a nervous breakdown.
They want me to marry you.
George"
so do l." said George
Even if / didn't have a bath all
lay-and stayed in bed-and didn't II
tut things away-and painted in the
middle OF the highland forgot TO
lean my teeth. or order lunch?"
If you considered the ignoring Of
hose things necessary, for your hap
'inesS and work, my dear; but per-
onally think they could be worked
n without much effort"
Maude sat down in the Counting
hair.
Suddenly without warning she was
rying and explaining-to George-to
Pet.
Il do want to marry you, George"
he said. II can't help the kind of
erson am, or the work do! They've
ried to turn me into another kind of |
erson ever since I can remember / |
mink my soul has gone on strikel 1 n
ouldnt have worked and been the
ind Of person they wanted"
why didn't you tell us they way 4
Oh felt, Maude?" Pet said She was
hite and aghast.
II don't really like being lntidy or
ating at odd times" said Maude
Idly. I've been driven to it, or
ould have had to leave my most i'm
0rtant work to go and eat. I would
ould have been all walking and play
lg tennis and getting up and going
J bed to the minute and keeping ac-
)unts and remembering where every
ling was. I've had an awful lifelong II
ght to keep private time for the pic II
reS to come in my head. They come II
lere first, George. They've got TO II
ROW there before can put them on II
lper. That is what Madelaine and ii
It never understood. I'm sorry I'm
tie tonight. had a whole book grow
g."
''I was afraid she'd grow up a Stat
IN, without method or order" HI
Il was afraid she'd grow up slack
Id soft" said Pet iii
They sat there with white faces. III
Forgive me, Maude," said Madel-
ne. HI
I'm rich" said George, quite simply u