The Washington times., 1937-03-03

it making you happy"
She could not quite repeat,
making you happy" She felt
neither happy nor unhappy, only
altogether calm, as the days FOL
lowed each other.
Her marriage was arranged for
the week before Thanksgiving.
Gilbert would not return until
Immediately before the wedding.
They would sail for the Mediter-
ranean. Their further plans were
indefinite.
None of those things seemed
either specially important or very
real. She grew a little thin, and
Felicia'S expression, watching her,
was sometimes dubious, so that
one day Denise said to her: Don't
worry. I'll go through with it,
you know - largely because Of
mother and father. They're so
pleased"
Felicia just said: "They are,
aren't they?"
1t was five days before her we'd
ding day, and four before Gilbert's
expected return, when in her morn
ing mail Denise had a letter from
Keith very short letter:
I'm just back from the West,
Denise, and should like to see you
for few minutes. Will you have
tea with me either Friday or Satur-
day if you are free? Unless you'd
rather not, of course.
II shall be in the Plaza lobby
both days, at 4::30. So don't bother
to answer this. Just appear, if you
choose.
IF you don't choose, well, con-
slider that there are enclosed all
the best wishes for you, my dar-
ling. But I'd rather make them
personally. Only-to make them
is of course not the principal rea-
son want to see you. KEITH.
That letter came on Friday
morning.
All day she thought she did not
know whether she meant to meet
him or not. But wild excitement
famed in her; and her eyes and
cheeks we're brilliant, so that even
her unobServing father noticed
and said: How well and happy
you look, Denise!"
CHAPTER x
At half past three she dressed,
Too carefully, she told herself, too
elaborately. But if this was the
last time she was to see him, she
wanted him to remember her as
pretty
She repeated to herself, "The
last time!" and suddenly she did
not believe it at all, suddenly the
whole month was unreal, and the
only clear reality was that she
would see Keith, and all their mis-
understandings would vanish
| forthwith.
She inspected herself very care
fully, and knew she had never
looked better in her life! In a
street-length silver metal dress, a
velvet hat and with complete un-
scrupulosless) the silver fox cape
that was Gilbert's most recent gift.
The StrangeSt mood was upon her,
a feeling that Gilbert and every
one else were against her, but she
would get her own way in spite of
them all! She ran downstairs
and took a cab with a feeling that
she had no time to waste.
But, strive as she might, she
could lot make that defiant mood
last. 1t departed before she had
completed the long journey across
town, and With its departure she
telt somehow guilty, as if she were
doing something furtive and a little
disgraceful. :.
When she saw Keith's face.
though, hesitancy left her. Why,
she had to see him, to say good-by
at least.
How much time have you, De
cse?"
About an hour"
DO you want tea, or would you
rather drive around the park. l
have my car here"
I'd much rather drive" She
walked around the corner beside
him. There was his black roadster
IN which he and she had been on
so many short drives that seemed
In retrospect invariably gay.
His shoulder touched hers, acci-
dentaLy, crossing Central Park
South. She moved away from that
contact, and he said stiffly;
Sorry"
They made one circuit of the
park IN complete silence then. She
stole glance at his profile. Why,
ne looked older! That was prob
bly, not remarkable; she felt so
much older herself in those five
,.eeks.
(TO be COntinued)
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