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Of fun. I'll miss you" He was a
& and person.
The motor was purring sweetly
and she had her hand on the gear
shift when a long yellow car
pulled in at the curb in front of
her a young man with very
black hair jumped out and came
running over to put his foot on
her running board and lean in at
her window.
Hey, what's all this? Baggage
and everything. You aren't leav-
ing? You can't leave. I've come
over to take you to Virginia"
I'm sorry. Haynes. but / told
you that l was going today. My
plans were definite when
came. I can't change"
HAYNES Hills had a mouth that
could be gentle. or arrogant, or
curved for petulanee. He had
white, graceful hands and
good voice and no faith in any
thing but himself. There was a
sort of overtone to everything
that he said. as though he were
listening to his own words, APP
provingly. admiring their effect.
His overcoat was English and
expensive, his hat dipped at the
smart angle. Women went a ut
tie mad about him. and his at
titude of indulgent amusement
accepted this without humor and
without surprise. But Rosemary
Mallard had not gone mad. She
had even refused to be impressed.
She was. so he had complained,
the most aloof female on earth.
barring the statue of Liberty.
And he suspected uncomfortably,
that she was herself a little
amused by the feminine furry of
adulation that eddied around him,
consequently she interested him
more that any girl he had met
in years.
LIS eyes, fixed reproachfully
~ upon her, surrendered more
than he knew. You are rigid
little thing. aren't you? Every
thing lines up and is laid out with
a steel rule. and you hold a stop
watch To see that life goes along
on schedule. You don't mean TO
tell me that you are driving all
the way to Florida alone ?"
/ always drive alone. Eve done
it dozens of times"
Somebody should take better
care Of you. What if a tire goes
flat ?"
Then l flag down the first &C
commodating driver and have a
service car sent out. And while
I'm waiting listen to the radio"
You disappoint me. I thought
you'd at least read an improving
book or do a few yards Of tat
ting. Rosemary, can't you see
that you're running my Spring ?
I've saved all the catalogues so
YOU could decide with me what
lily bulbs TO order. l was going
10 buy another saddle horse.
You've got saddle horse"
Dear girl. was going to buy
another horse Did you ever ride
the woods trails of Virginia in
the Spring when the redbud and
dogwood bloom together? Did
you ever see yellow gorse bios
soming against a rail fence a
hundred and fifty years old? Or
lambs scampering over a slope
so green thatii-l looks like some
kind of chemical fire was burn
ing over IL ,"
mo. never I caught a sail
fish once. and I've had chicken
pox and shaken hands with the
President. Do any of those things
count -
Not III the Spring. Nothing is
important in Spring but the one
person who makes the trees
bloom and the birds sing for
you"
You mean the weather man,
don't you? Haynes, l do have
To GO, l want to be in Raleigh
tonight. Tomorrow my father is
meeting me in Savannah. I'll
come back again in October I'M
less mother goes on a cruise, or
something. She always has to
save up some money before she
can go, so maybe she'll buy too
many frocks and I'll be back in
Washington in the Autumn. VIII
there be lambs on the hills of
Virginia them"
mo. they'll all be sheep. Fat
and unromantic, with burrs in
their tails. Why do you go to
Florida in Summon Nohod,y ooac