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and spilled everything.
"Skip it, Jo," she said. 81 was
just talking to be saying something"
"Afraid I can't skip it, darling"
10 answered. give got plans for you.
If can't have designs on a man of
my own, there's nothing like better
than cutting up plot on somebody
else's man. Listen, how's about after
dinner? We can really dig into the
stbject.'
GAIL right, then, after dinner" Lin
da answered, and stopped, hand to
mouth.
"Oh!" she said. DINNER. Poor
Mickey must be starved! Now, will
you pests clear out of here-or shall
I call a cop?"
"I'll so quietly, captain" 10 grim
aced, and did with Janice"
mickey, darling" Linda called in
to the front room after they had gone,
"do you mind being a vegetarian
just for tonight"
whats a vege-vegetarium,
mother?" Mickey wanted to know,
poking a grimy face around the door
sill.
"You are, son." Linda grinned.
Tonight, anyway. It's man who
hasn't any chops. And your own
chops, by the way, are a bit on the
soiled side.'
Mickey and Dopey both had another
face wash before they ate.
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10 Monroe crushed a virtually un-
smoked cigarette stub in an ash tray
on Linda's kitchen table, took a last
sip from a cup Of black coffee and
looked from the cup directly into
Linda's eyes. Linda held her gaze
only momentarily and then looked
down into the dregs of her own cup.
"C'mon, honey chile" 10 said, quiet
ly for 10. "Take your hair down and
tell Nanny everything. It's got you,
hasn't it,"
"Why {. :" Linda faltered. "What
do you mean 2"
10 pushed her chair back from the
table and answered:
what do I mean, darling? Look,
do you want me to draw pictures?
TIL give it to you in words of one
syllable: Him, you, bang! Romance
no that's two; let's call it quote
love unquote."
"Jo!" Janice Marberry interrupted
her. IT don't see anything so funny
about it. Linda didn't say she was
in love with anybody, did you, honey 2"
That was Janice. Love to her was
something to be spoken, something to
be felt, not subject for riddles;
nothing to be furtive about.
"You don't see anything funny!"
10 exploded. "Jan, precious, you
wouldn't. Here, for a solid haIfhour,
Linda has been telling us the thrilling
story of the operation on the roof;
of how young Doctor Blaine per-
formed a brilliant bit of surgery.
"She's told U.S." 10 continued, chow
DR.. Blaine looked down when he ask
ed for clamp, how DR.. Blaine's fine
blond hair annoyed him, how DIR.
Blaine's skilled bronzed fingers flew
about his task, how DR.. Blaine's eyes
nice blue eyes even when they were
angry-snapped when something dis
turbed him.. how DR.. Blaine modestly
shared credit with others after the
job was DONE"
10 paused to draw a deep breath
and plunged into her finale.
while Linda studiously tries to
hide her real feelings under a phoney
guise of professional admiration, she
forgets to tell US about anything but
DR.. William Blaine. You'd think, to |
listen to her, that the two of them
were alone on the roof. And then
Linda asks me what do I mean. I re-
peat: The lady has it bad!"
It was Linda's turn to draw a deep
breath.
"Well," Linda finally said. "That
doesn't leave much for me to say,
does it?'
'You see, Jan, DEAR" 10 turned to
the brown-eyed girl, she couldn't keep
it secret from Aunty 10. I know the
symptoms too well. I've been exposed
to it. There ought to be law that
all young doctors should have to look
like Frankensteins or passport photos
before they are licensed to practice.
"No, Linz" 10 turned to the topic
of discussion, there isn't much for
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