The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-30
KITTYFOYLE
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
CrrtIrled Frnr 30 -

for YOU I get his name from
friends who say he has the high
class trade
7 wouldn't have guessed Il -
able 10 get smile out Of that
affair. which vas pretty grim. L
was like being boiled IN oil While
/ was sick At Delphine's. and feel
.ng damn low. I tried to think
things over a bit. What hurt was
having 70 write a lot Of nonsense
10 wyn OF course there was a
ong letter from him when I got
back 10 ny room. all about Ronnie
and the engagement being an
lounced sooner than he expected
and sweet things he said which
weren't any sweeter than the
truth.
He had his own hell to SO
through most likely. the way
Rosey Rittenhouse said. I didn't
see why should be bitohy to him
Just because he'd taught me how
lovely things can be We taught
zach other.
II was queer to he there in Del
phine's lovely little guest room and
she'd come hack from the office
and tell me what happened. Every
time I heard her or the maid
coming in l had to hurry and pick
up that slippery silk quilt
couldn't keep on top Of the bed.
guess French people don't thrash
round so much once they get to
sleep. Shed make me wear the
prettiest little bed jacket of her
own and said l. made a romantic
looking invalid. like somebody that
had been through the French Rev
olution. You wouldn't know how
Delphine could be when
she wasn't debating but she'd ar
range me like I was something in
= display window and | never feel
that bed is place to be putting
On an act.
Maybe its good for anyone 10
find herself once and a while
where she doesn't believe what's
! didn't figure ont
how nutty the situation was until
tried to edit it for Molly later on.
Here's X. Foyle exactly not doing
everything woman ought to be
good at. She's not having a baby.
and she's not cooking meals, and
she's not even earning a living at
a business that's only a fairytale
anyhow. figured on making DANES
look like they don't really. She's
not climbing stairs. there's an ele-
vator to do that for her. and she's
not locking the front door nights,
there's a big stevedore in uniform.
She's living in a cellophane boil
doir with maid handing her
trays Of delicatessen.
Molly says it's been specially
tough m women since lately, be-
cause they're getting 10 be citi-
zens. and citizens have no sex.
] think Molly's getting
a little hard I mean little sort
IF angry in the back Of her mind.
| wish there was some man good
and sweet enough for her, she'd go
off the deep end about. There I
am. getting back to sex again and
the hell with it.
Molly says women overstate
things when they get worked up.
because they have to spend ninety
per cent of their lives in under
stating. A good citizen don't dare
let on how things hurt. or what
joy feels like Yes, JOY; it's funny
how you get ashamed even to
to use plain words like
JOY and beauty. put on the high
class dame act once and a while,
partly copied from Delphine I sup
pose. But when you're putting on
an act how you love to be caught
up on it. BY the right person. that
IS. How about Mark: is he the one
want to be caught up by?
I'd be better American if
Mark than if I'd married
wynn. The more we get mixed up,
mean race-mixed-up, the better.
We got no time here for that kind
Of prejudice. I could have made
something out Of Wyn. something
pretty damn fine and American
too. If I'd had the management Of
him. I'd never need to do that for
Mark. He'll make something out
Of himself and no mistake. I guess
you need to be sorry for man
1t would be hard to be
sorry for Mark. He's so damn
He's got the same kind Of sure
ness, professionally, that the Main
Line has socially. He's got re-
,pect for intelligence like the Main
Line has for flannel pants without
any crease in them. --e wouldn't
let a woman get the better of him
any more than Rosey Rittenhouse
would let a polo pony.
It's Molly gets me this way She
says I've got few real ideas. Ike
scatter rugs on = big bare floor
Is it all right 10 think about
things, even If you don't know the
answers
Molly darling. If you had what
I've had you wouldn't be so GER
tain. maybe. Like Wyn used %
.sy there's an enigma in the
Hoodpile
What it figures down TO- 7 want
10 be a good American. III never
forget how I heard that colored
girl Marian Anderson sing Ny
Country lis OF Thee on the radio.
I cried and I hope lots Of other