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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I know everybody is out, you are practically alone in the house, and I know you're coming with me, willing or not! It won't hurt the baby a mite, I've my little car out in the road, and if you don't consent, I'll " He voiced no threat, but Azalea felt pretty sure he meant to take the baby himself if she refused to go with them. She thought quickly, but no avenue of escape could she see.
Dancing with Raymond Gale, Azalea pirouetted gaily with some fancy steps. "Good!" he cried, falling into the spirit of the thing, and they pranced about in a mad whirl. "How Western she is," Elise said to Phil, with whom she was sedately one-stepping. "Clever dancer," he returned, briefly, and the subject was not continued. "Come for a walk," said Gale to Azalea, as the dance was over.
"My!" said Azalea, unable to think of any more fitting response, and taking Betty's outstretched hand, with her own little finger carefully extended. Betty Gale's eyes opened wide for a fraction of a second, then she as quickly accepted the situation, and said, cordially, "I'm sure we shall be friends. And you must like my scapegrace brother, too, if only for my sake."
"No, not Thackeray. I mean, just the idea of the gay atmosphere, the light, giddy side of life. For instance, let's have a Vanity booth and sell all sorts of aids to beauty " "Powder and paint!" exclaimed Azalea, in surprise. "Well, I meant more like lacy caps and stunning négligées.
"Well, Azalea is a handful, I admit, but I think she's good at heart, and she is devoted to my booful little Fleury-floppet! My own Dolly-winkums, who looks prezackly like her Daddy-winkums!" "Patty, you'll go to the lunatic asylum some day, if you let yourself talk such gibberish!" "Listen to him, Baby mine, my flubsy-dubsy, my pinky-poppy-petal, listen to your dreadful Dads! Isn't he the "
They went on planning, all working in harmony, and each full of suggestions, which the others approved or criticised, in frank, friendly fashion. Then Janet appeared to call Azalea to the telephone, and the girl looked up, surprised. She blushed scarlet, and hurried from the room. "Who could have called her?" said Elise; "she doesn't know any one you don't know, does she, Patty?"
On he went, along endless hedges of azalea and oleander, past thickets of Spanish-bayonet, under leaning cocoanut-palms; and at last the huge banyan-tree rose sprawling across the sky-line, and he saw the white facades and red-tiled roofs beyond.
Aspiring young singers made records of their favourite songs. One young girl played the violin for a record. Taking their turn, Raymond and Azalea had what he called an impromptu scrap.
He didn't excuse himself with the thought that it was Patty's doing, not his, that Azalea was there at all, but he felt personally to blame for having such a relative and for having her there in their home. He looked helplessly at Patty, with such despair in his kind eyes, that she ran over and kissed him, in spite of the fact that they were not alone. Azalea giggled.
We had fallen into the habit of drifting into the living-room, where the piano stood, every morning immediately after breakfast, to hear Azalea play. In the evenings she sang to us; but one does not sing directly after breakfast, and only second in delight to hearing Azalea's superb voice was listening to her matchless touch upon the keyboard.
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