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"And she likes me better than any girl in school, momie, and I'm to be her chum from to-day on, and not another girl in school is invited except Edwina Nelson, because her father's on nearly all the same boards of directors with Mr. Grosbeck, and " "Marcia! Marcia! and you came home from school just as if nothing had happened! Child, sometimes I think you're made of ice." "Why, I'm glad, momie."

"I have, momie, and she's going to bring me home every afternoon in their automobile after we've called for her brother Archie at Columbia Law School." "Marcy! the Grosbeck automobile bringing you home every day!" "And it's going to call for me the night of the party. Nonie's getting a lemon taffeta." "I'll get you ivory, with a bit of real lace!" "Oh, momie, momie, I can scarcely wait!"

She says if two people are unsuited they should separate, quietly, like you and my father. She knows we're one of the first old Southern families on my father's side. I I'm not trying to make you talk about it, dear, but but we are aren't we?" "Yes, Marcy." "He he was just irresponsible. That's not being not nice people, is it?" "No, Marcy." "Nonie's not forbidden. She just meant in case, momie.

Her enormous spoon into the copper kettle and flop, gurgle, gooze, softly into the jars. One two three At the sixty-eighth, Marcia, without stirring or lifting her lids, spoke into the sucky silence. "Momie?" "Yes, Marcy." "You'll be glad." Hattie, pausing at the sixty-eighth, "Why, dear?" "I came home in Nonie Grosbeck's automobile. I'm invited to a dinner dance October the seventeenth.

After while grandpa and grandma came from church and when grandma came out of her room where she had changed her silk dress for a calico dress in order to get dinner, I stepped out from a door and said, "Hello, grandma." "Why, child," she said, "you almost scared me to pieces. What are you doin' here? Where's your popie and your momie?"

Suddenly Marcia's eyes, almost with the perpendicular slits of her kitten's in them, seemed to swish together like portières, shutting Hattie behind them with her. "Oh my Marcy!" said Hattie, dimly, after a while, as if from their depths. "Marcy, dearest!" "At at Harperly's, momie, almost all the popular upper-class girls wear a a boy's fraternity pin." "Fraternity pin?"

To Hattie that stare was beautiful, and in a way it was. As if two blue little suns were having their high noon. Sometimes Marcia offered to help, because toward the end, Hattie's back could ache at this process, terribly, the pain knotting itself into her face when the rotary movement of her stirring arm began to yank at her nerves. "Momie, I'll stir for a while."

And, momie they don't mind, dear about us. Nonie knows that my father is is separated and never lived at home with us. She's broad-minded. She says just so there's no scandal, a divorce, or anything like that. She said it's vulgar to cultivate only rich friends. She says she'd go with me even if she's forbidden to." "Why, Marcy darling, why should she be forbidden?" "Oh, Nonie's broadminded.

"What did she say, Marcy, when she asked invited you?" "She?" "Nonie." "Why she didn't invite me, momie." "But you just said " "It was her brother Archie invited me. We called for him at Columbia Law School, you see. It was he invited me. Of course Nonie wants me and said 'Yes' right after him but it's he who wants Nonie and me to be chums. I He I thought I told you momie."

"Let me take you to Winks and Pinks," she said as soon as we were out of the building: "they've got such lovely shades of blotting- paper pearl and heliotrope and momie and crushed " "But I want ordinary white blotting-paper," I said. "Never mind. They know me at Winks and Pinks," she replied inconsequently.