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But but I've been unhappy myself, Mrs. Gardiner. A person I love has been cruel to me. I don't know what I'm going to do. I worry and worry!" Magsie was frankly crying now. "I wish there was something I could do for Richie, but I can't tell him I care!" she sobbed.
'I do wish, girl, you'd atop talking, said Miss Delacour, and Magsie of the black hair and black eyes and glowing complexion glanced at her new mistress and thought it prudent to obey.
"Magsie? Never! She's not that type. She's one of ourselves as to that, George. It was that that made me like Magsie she's a lady, you know. She thinks she's in love; she wants to be married. And if Rachael divorces me, what else can I do?" "Rachael wants the divorce for the boys," George said. "She told Alice so. She said that except for that, nothing on earth would have made her consider it.
Rachael stood up, too, so near her guest that she could put one hand on Magsie's shoulder. The girl looked up at her with the faith of a distressed child. "I'm glad you did come, Magsie," said Rachael painfully, "although I never dreamed, until this afternoon, that this could possibly have been in Warren's thoughts. You speak of divorce, quite naturally, as of course anyone may, to me.
She was known by the sobriquet of "Stars and Stripes", or "The Yank", and good-natured fun was poked at her transatlantic accent. She took it good-temperedly, but with a readiness of repartee that laid the jokers flat. "One can't get much change out of Diana," commented Magsie, after an unsuccessful onslaught of teasing. "I think she's a scream," agreed Vi.
If nobody knew better than Magsie that she was pretty, also nobody knew better that she was not clever. Men tired of her dimples and giggles and round eyes. Bryan Masters admired her, to be sure, but then Bryan Masters was also a divorced man, and an actor whose popularity was already on the wane. Richie Gardiner admired her in his pathetic, hopeless way, and Richie was young and rich.
Let Warren admire Magsie if he wanted to do so, let him buy her her play, and stand between her and financial responsibility, jet him admire her yes, even love her, in his generous, big-brotherly way!
You shall be free, and if you choose to put Magsie Clay here in my place, you may do so!" "Rachael!" he said angrily. And he caught her thin wrists in his hands. "Don't touch me!" she said, wrenching herself free. "Don't touch me, you cruel and wicked and heartless ! Go to Magsie! Tell her that I sent you to her! Take your hands off me, Warren " Standing back, discomfited, he attempted reason.
He laughed, his indulgent glance flashing to Elinor and to Rachael, as one who invited their admiration of an attractive child, before he looked down at her again. "Proud of you! Why, I'm as happy as you are about it!" "You know," Magsie said to Elinor naively, still holding Warren's hands, "he's helped me tremendously. He's been just an absolute angel to me!"
Joseph Pickering, very charming in coffee-colored madras, with an exquisite heron cockade upon her narrow tan hat. Magsie was up, but not dressed, and was not ill pleased to have company.
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