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Updated: May 21, 2025
Crosby Rhodes. We start for home just as soon as the Maison Noir can turn out her trousseau; which is going to be some outfit, take it from me." I hope I said something appropriate. If I didn't I expect Crosby was too excited to notice. Also that night I carried home the bulletin to Vee. "There!" says Vee.
In other words, the wizard met a master mind, eh?" "I dunno," says I. "Guess I gave him the shunt, all right. Just by luck, though. He had a clever act, I'll say, even if he didn't get it across." I remember how thrilled Vee gets when she first discovers that these new people in Honeysuckle Lodge are old friends of hers. I expect some poetical real estater wished that name on it.
Durin' the next week we talked it over a lot; but, so far as I can remember, we only said about the same thing. It came out that this friend of Auntie's was one that Vee never could stand for, anyway: a giddy old dame who kalsomined her face, was free with advice on bringin' up nieces, and was a bridge and embroidery fiend. "And I shall be left to sit around," says Vee, "bored stiff."
"Thanks," says I, "but I guess I'd better just sit here quiet and and try to forget." "Nonsense!" says Vee. "That's a silly way to act. Besides, you ought to tramp around and get the feel of the boat. You'll be noticing the motion if you don't." "Pooh!" says I. "What this old boat does is beneath my notice. She's headed away from Broadway, that's all I know about her.
Then up comes Vee, lookin' as fresh and nifty as if she was just steppin' out on the Avenue; and before I can duck behind anything she's spotted me. "Why, Torchy," says she, "you don't mean to say you're feeling badly already! Or is it because you're leaving New York?" Then I saw my alibi. I sighs and gazes mushy hack towards the land.
I knew it wasn't just a whim of hers; for one evening along towards the last, I found her with her eyelids red. "Been cryin'?" I asks. "A little," says Vee. "Silly thing to do when one's packing." "See here, Vee," says I; "I ought to be doing something about this." "But you can't," says she. "No one can.
Looked like a simple matter for me to locate Aunty. And if she was out takin' her drive or anything why, I could be explainin' to Vee while I waited. That would be tough luck, of course; but I could stand it for once. At their apartment hotel I finds nobody home but Celeste, the maid, all dolled up like Thursday afternoon. She hands it to me cold and haughty that Madame and Ma'mselle are out.
I'll admit Auntie hadn't issued any standin' invitation, but if Vee was expectin' me that's enough. And she was. We went to shows some, or took walks up the Drive, or just sat in the window nook and indulged in merry conversation. Once we had a whale of a time, when Mr. Robert gives a perfectly good dinner dance for us.
Life's hard enough nowadays for an unprotected male. Let alone a girl. You got to take the world as it is, and the only possible trade for a girl that isn't sweated is to get hold of a man and make him do it for her. It's no good flying out at that, Vee; I didn't arrange it. It's Providence. That's how things are; that's the order of the world. Like appendicitis.
The first experimental aero engine, of what became known as the 'Eagle' type, was of Vee design it was completed in March of 1915 and was so successful that it was standardised for quantity production.
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