The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-28
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 TOMORROW FAIR
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A 1oA pulleu lpJO tue uluBlneSS OA Newark. sitting in the air-condl- toned fiatness of her Pullman Kitty Bishop felt oppressed by the air, by Newark, and marooned in lonliness.
 She was on her way back from Florida where she had spent three months acquiring not sun-tan, but a divorce. With long, smooth pull the train started on again for the last few minutes run into New York. Kitty stared out into the gage a thought. That she supposed, wheels clicking steadily along the rails and trying to take in the fact that she had her divorce from Col- lins Bishop and that now she had 1t her own life had jumped it's tracks.
 The porter came through and confiscated her luggage. If she had been travelling with Collins she wouldn't have had to give the lug. gage a thought. The, she supposed, was one of the reasons she felt depressed in trains. It wasn't trav- cling that depressed her, it was travelling alone. There was some- thing about 1t that undermined her self-confidence - like an unbecom- ing hat.
 Alarmed by the way her mind was sabotaging her courage, Kitty disciplined herself. She did a little work with compact and lipstick, because there was never any point in looking as bad as you felt.
 Then she deliberately shunted her thoughts away from amazed wonder that three brief years of marriage should out-balance all the preceding twenty-odd years of her life. She had travelled, for in- stance, many, many more miles alone than she had with Collins. And yet the total of the miles she had travelled with him, the few years she'd spent as his wife, added up to total of emotional experi- ence that made living alone a sharper readjustment than she'd quite foreseen.
 She decided it would be far more constructive to concentrate on her immediate destination in- stead of worrying about the uncer- tainties of the new direction her life had skidded into. It was re- lief, and she admitted it, to know that instead of lonely indecision in New York she was bound for the definiteness of suburban Dore- mus, New Jersey, to stay for Q while with her brother, Ben Graham, and his wife, Peg. Kitty was devoted to Peg and Ben and she also reasoned optimisticany that you can't go on feeling alone in a house like the Grahams' thai has three children in it.
 The train rushed into roarine black nothingneSs. Kitty sternly refusd to let herself hope that Ben might have driven in to New York to meet her.
 InUT in Doremus, wave of chil- V dren and tumult rushed out of the house. A door banged and there was a shock of quiet. Peg Graham hoped Kitty could stand noise.
 Peg was wholly relieved that her sister-in-law had agreed to come but she did have qualms. For one thing. Doremus was an old pair of saddleshoes to her because she'd lived there all her life except for a few years at college and in New York, but she worried a little about how easy a fit it would be for Kitty. Ben refusd to do any wor- rying at all He was fond Of ms younger sister, gave as his consid- cred opinion that she'd always had more brains than sense, and gone of to meet the Florida train with a brothers philosophical attitude toward a sisters ups and downs Peg, watchfully waiting for his return with Kitty, assuaged her worries by a it of irritation at Ben. Ben never went into the publish CTS ofice in which he worked on Saturdays, but he'd gone oil bright and early that morning even though Kitty's train wasn't due until late afternoon. Clutching at a straw, in Pegs opinion, to save himself from having to clean the cellar as he'd promised.
 It was five o'clock and, punctuai the Bishops as she had to separate and clouded. She could still see Collins and Kitty coming in to- gether like a flourish of brass. and like everything bright and broken their marriage seemed more broken because it had been bright. And why it had ended she had been