The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-04

covered he ls an officer ln the German army, has . title, estates. Deborah Is uneasy AS she keeps her first date with stephan.
 TIME FOR ROMANCE , CHAPTER HI
 Tn spite of Angela's dire hints, Chat first evening with Stephan proved entirely uneventful. Except that he seemed to know all the best places to eat and dance and to have unlimited money to spend, 1t might have been an evening with any American college boy.
 Before long, few evenings passed that Deborah and stephan did not dine or dance or swim or go over their class notes together or per- haps just walk for hours, some- times hardly talking at all.
 Without touching her--eXcept In dancing, or helping her with her wrap or into car without a sign of loye-making beyond his ingenious pleasure in being with her, he somehow managed to make their casual companionship more exciting than any other man had ever made violent courtship. Dee borah hardly understood why, un- Jess 1t was that each time you were win him, you were sure something was going to happen: and when 1t didn't you were equally sure 1t would next time.
 Angela kept Up n running fire of gossip and warning,
 You're certainly causing sen- Sation," she said one evening as Deborah was dressing to go out, 1 How 50" Deborah asked lightly, wondering if she ought to wear the white and silver frock again so soon,
 "They say that half the females on the campus have been trying to get your fair-haired boy, but he can'G sec any one but you. sup- pose" - Angela's eyes narrowed with friendly malice--"that he pick cd you because you're the pure Nor- dies dream of the Ideal hausfrau, with your yellow hair and that in- credible skin Of yours.
 1 "Of course, can't help won- Idering how long you'd keep your golden corn-fed look on q bullets instead of butter diet. But no doubt, marrying Into the ruling class there'd be no trouble about bread. lines and that sort Of bother, i, Take my advice and wear the white and silver, Debby It makes you look like Isolde in the moonlight scene"
 "NeneSense" Deborah laughed, ! furious with herself for flushing, "Anyhow, I don't believe he's a Nazi. You know perfectly well they aren't all, over there. Lots Of them hate that sort Of thing as much as we do."
 "YM don't imagine his taking l q ccurse in poetry is any argu- rncnt that he's above dealing out Ia little frightfulnesS now and then, do you7" Angle leased. Those Nazis can be as sentimental as moonlight and roses about mothers of ten and family life, and kick tar out ol Q few hundred miserable non-AryanS in the same breath" You're getting to sound more like Sam Lindstrom every day, An. gela Anyhow, neither classi. hcati0n fits my case, I'm neither non .Aryan nor the mother Of ten"
 Don't boast" Angela grinned her mocking grin. "Of course you may never even have been kissed yet for all can prove. But have a hunch you're going to be before this even- l1ng's overland that it's going to be . right workmanlike job, I was watching the lad while you gave your report today. AS 6 scholastic effort, it wasn't 50 hot, if you ask me. But he hung on your lips as If you were Flagstad singing the 'LiebeStod.
 "He was probably making notes on my distinguished Cape Cod dic- tion," Deborah laughed, catching up her evening bag and hurrying out as bell rang downstairs.
 Nevertheless, undressing hours later, she was bit piqued at hay- ing to admit to herself that the fact that she had not been kissed was not in the least due as it had often been with other men - to her own adroit handling Of difficult situation . The situation sim ply had not arisen.
 No doubt, she thought wryly, he was after all just another earnest young foreigner instead in polishing up his English small-talk . Thrifty people, these Germans,
 For after a month of almost con- stant companionship, she knew little more about Stephan than she had guessed in the beginning.
 She did know that he could laugh and kick up his heels as ir. Tesponsibly as any American boy Of "A or 25; that he was surprisingly well informed on variety of sub. jects; that he had an unsuitable GU. riosity about American institutions and that he was amazed and en-