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tiers eight hours a day. five and
half days week. She had been
in that same office now for six
years. And she was on the same
Job she had started with. There
was no chance for promotion for
a girl in the complicated set-up Of
a great Industrial plant office.
Enid sighed perplexedly. She
wanted TO get married. But would
Tom Drisooll give her the kind
Of a marriage she dreamed of. or
the kind Of a marriage that
Lefty had?
Lefty, who WAS old-looking at
40. Lefty who had three children
when pills wages were only ade-
ouate for one. Lefty who was al
ways worried about bills and the
insecurity Of pills job. Lefty who
was lonelier with her husband
than Enid was as a spinster. For
Phil only came home at night TO
take his shoes off and prop his
weary feet on the coffee table
while he read and radioed and
dozed.
And then Lefty unexpectedly
rallied 10 a defense OF marriage.
II wish you would. Enid. II isn't
any kind of a life for a woman
10 live alone and work in an office
all her life. I know how you feel.
You're the last one at home and
you think it's up 10 you To stay
there and help now that Pop can't
work any more. But 1t isn't fair.
You're entitled to a life OF your
own the same as anyone
Lefty paused for breath and
plunged on. Go ahead. Enid. and
marry Tom. There will be some
way for Pop and Nom TO manage.
They own their home and don't
have TO pay TENT. And II doesn't
take much for them 10 eat. Maybe
Tom would be willing 10 give some
every week and" She paused.
torn between warm generosity and
an acute consciousness Of ths In
adequacy Of Pills salary TO meet
even their own needs. Phil and
IL will try 10 help q little" she
FINISHED brsvely-
Enid reached over and took the
pink dress out Of Lettys hands
and slipped II over AIMS curly
head. "sit still. you wiggie-worm,'
she admonished. until I get this
buttoned." She bent and kissed the
back Of the moist fat little neck.
Lefty, she reflected. meant well,
but she hadn't been much help In
solving her problem. And IL was
problem that had 10 be an
swered soon. She and Tom had
been going together for two years
now, and he was getting impa-
/ tient. He wanted 10 he married
right away. He hadn't any money
saved UP. but that DIDN'T bother
him at all. He'd said that tnsy
could borrow money and buy their
| furniture and then pay 1t back
month by month. He expected
her TO 20 on working for a while
until they got started.
But. Enid thought what u
something happened and sh'
couldn't 20 on workinK7 VIA. II
she had a baby right sway a.
Lefty had had7 Tom was a sales
man for a small manufacturing
plant He wasn't making any rsior'
money than Phil Fields was as
mechanic In the same shop. tn
ss she would. Enid couldn't So
any future ahead for herself an
Tom except one Ike Lstty's an
Pills msybe. that was a.
good az she could Do.
she wssn't really pretty. He
skin was creamy and her fin'
straight hair was a honey nlont
shade. contrasting nicely WITH be-
brown eyes But her face lsekse
animation. II vas TOO quiet. An
shs vas any. Shed never had sn5
boy friend except Tom Shed me-
him a. Lettys house. In fact Il
was Lefty who'd engineered thssi
FIRST meeting ard Eteered them
into their first dates. And nov
IL was Lefty who VsS urging hsi
70 marry him