The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-10
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You + SO oolivious-so-ves.
blind"
"Blind?"
You don't know-you don't see
you're curiously insensitive!
You don't know what other people
are feeling and thinking"
l should have said just the op.
posite."
You see what you're looking
at, yes. You're you're like a
searchlight. A powerful beam
turned onto the one spot where
your interest is, and behind it ans
each side of it, darkness!"
Henrietta, my dear. what is al
this?"
Its dangerous, John. You as.
sumo that everyone likes you, that
they mean well to you. People like
Lucy, for instance"
Doesn't Lucy like me-" he
said surprised. 1--WE always been
extremely fond of her"
And so you assume that she
likes you. But Pm not sure.
And Gerda and Edward-or and
Nudge and Henry, How do you
know what they Feel toward
your"
"And Henrietta? Do I know
how she feels?" He caught her
hand for a moment. "At least
I'm sure of you"
She took her hand away.
"You a be sure Of no n in
this world, John"
His face had grown grave.
"No, l won't believe that. I'm
sure of you and I'm sure of my
self. At least" His face changed.
what is it, Jobn?"
do you know what 1 found my
self saying today? Something
quite ridiculous. I want to 60
home That's what 1 said and
haven't the least idea what
meant by it."
Henrietta said slowly, "You
must have had some picture in
your mind"
He said sharply, Nothing.
Nothing at ALL"
At. dinner that night, Henrietta
was put next to David and from
the end of the table Lucy's deli
cate eyebrows telegraphed-not a
command-Lucy rever command
ed-but an appeal.
Sir Henry was doing his best
with Gerda and succeeded quite
well. John, his face amused, was
following the leaps and bounds O.
Lucy's discursive mind. Nudge
talked in rather a stilted way tc
Edward, who seemed more alb
sentminded than usual.
David was glowering and crurr
bling his bread with a nervop'
hand.
David had come to The Hollow
in a spirit of considerable unwill-
ingness. Until now. he had neve-
met either Sir Henry or Lac,
Angkatell, and disappearing of til
Empire generally, he was prepar-
ed to disapprove of these relative
o. his. Edward, whom he die
know, he despised as dilettante.
The remaining four guests he ex-
amined with a critical eye. Rela-
tons, he thought, Wer pretty aw-
fui. and one was expected to tall
to people, a thing which he hated
doing.
Nudge and Henrietta he dis
counted as empty : headed. This
DR.. Chris4ow was just one Of these
Harley Street charlatans all
manner and social ucces his
wife obviously did not count.
David shifted his neck in his
collar and wished f~o~-o~+1~ ~"
all these people could know how
little he thought OF them! 4neA
were really all quite negligible.
When he had repeated that three
times to himself he felt rather
better. He still slowered, but he
was able to leave his bread alone
Henrietta, though responding
to the eyebrows, had some
difficulty in making Roadway.
David's curt rejoinders were
snubbing in the extreme. In the
end she had recourse to a method
she had employed before with the
tongue-tied young.
She made, deliberately, a dog
matte and quite unjustifiable pro-
nouncement on 4 modern COM
poser, knowing that David had
much technical musical knowl-
edge.
To her amusement the plan
worked. David drew hirnse up
from his slouching position V'~re
he had been more or less reclin-