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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Darrie, Oh, Darrie! want to come for a walk with Hildreth and me?" So the three set off together, leaving me and Ruth alone.
"No, they're both a couple of ninnies ... but there's this to be said for Penton, he's trying to get something done for the betterment of humanity ... while Hildreth's only a parasite." "And Darrie how about her?
"A very foolish young man to treat me so when I am still your best friend." "Here comes the north-bound train. You hop aboard and go on back to New York." Seething with rage, I caught Penton Baxter by the arm and thrust him up the steps.... Next morning came a letter from Darrie, from the Martha Washington. We were the talk of the town, she told us.
Darrie stepped out over to the Ronds', not to be herself brought into what she had so far managed to keep out of. Hildreth consumed the better part of two hours fixing herself up as women do when they want to make an impression.... "Your friend from Kansas must see that you haven't made such a bad choice in picking me," she proclaimed, with that pretty droop of her mouth.
"You see, Darrie, neither you nor I are married, and neither of us knows anything about sex, except in the theory of the books we've read how can we judge the troubles of a man and woman who are married?" "There's a lot in what you say." "I believe it would be better if we both cleared out and left them to fight this out alone." "Perhaps it would."
"You didn't wake me. I was awake already. I haven't slept a wink." "Neither have we!" I responded. "What?" Darrie asked me in so startled, impulsive a manner that Hildreth and I laughed ... and she laughed a little, too ... and then grew grave again.... "It was such a beautiful night, Johnnie and I took a walk in the moonlight." Darrie looked from one to the other of us with a wide, staring look.
Darrie laughed. "Which would you rather have, a son or a daughter?" she asked me. "I don't know," I replied, letting Daniel slide down, "but I think I'd rather have a daughter ... the next generation will see a great age of freedom for women ... feminism....
Far off, at a respectful distance, a carol of rough, humorous voices sang the song, "Happily Married"! "H-a-double-p-y," etc. And we knew that my bluff had worked. The next day we went through a let-down. Hildreth was quite nerve-shaken, and so was Darrie. But I strutted about with my chest out, the cock of the walk.
But there's nothing between them ... not even a kiss ... of that I'm certain. Darrie is as cool as a cucumber ... and Penton is as shy with women as you are!" I smiled to myself. If Ruth had seen us that preceding afternoon! "Of course the fault could not all be on Hildreth's side."
That afternoon, at Baxter's suggestion, he and I launched forth on a walk together.... "There is some beautiful country for walking about here." "Darrie, will you and Ruth have the veal steak cooked by six o'clock?" I noticed that he did not include his wife. Also, I looked at him in amazement ... a look the significance of which he instantly caught ... Steak? Meat?
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