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Impulsive Romance
And what did she ex- THEY had been children together. tines anyhow?
Throw his job over- They first met in dancing school at pect a man to do? the age of six. Later they attended board and say, "Come on, Toots, we're the same grammar school. When Lon off to the South Seas and to hell with was a college senior, Celina was a so- the consequences? Fine thing, all phomore. Their acquaintance was ca- right, but when you work three years sual. They were then not what one trying to establish yourself in your would call close friends. They saw chosen field, it wasn't easy. If he had each other only once or twice during thought about it at all he would have summer vacations for almost seven favoured the idea of an engagement, a simple ceremony and a relaxing honey- years.
moon at the seashore,
When Lon got his degree he looked for a job with a Philadelphia mining engineering concern and got one. He used to drive back and forth from Riverside in his coupe.
One day he saw a girl hurrying to- ward the railroad station, and recog- nized Celina. He stopped and asked her if she would like a tide into the city.
It was a most discouraging outlook, and the unfortunate part was that now he knew how Celina felt, he loved her more and wanted her more than ever before. He found himself in a quan- dary, groping hopelessly. Then on Mon- day of the next week Mr. Deering, president of the firm for which Tom worked, called him into the office. Celina was twenty-one then.
"Lon, there's an opening for a young South had outgrown the rather awkward and ambitious man down in
If scrawniness of her childhood. He was America, representing our firm, amazed at the, transition that had tak- you'd like the chance, you can have
it. You'll have to decide now. en place.
at seven to-night. How boat sails about it?"
She
She told him she was private secre- tary to a junior partner in a law firm. He asked her why she didn't discon-
The
"I'll take it!" cried Lon, before he
By Barbara Ann Benedict
tinue riding in on the train and let him had time to consider anything except drive her each morning. She had to that opportunity was knocking and accept; there was no reason for her he'd better grab hold. to refuse.
"Splendid! It's a fine chance, Go So it became a habit. They found home and pack your things. I'll make much of common interest. Each consi- your reservations."
dered the other an old, old friend. Lon didn't think of Celina till he They talked of everything from books was half way down in the elevator. A and drama to war and philosophy. terribly depressed feeling assailed.. Occasionally they talked of love. They him. This meant he'd probably never studiously kept all remarks imperson- 'see her again. It meant that while al, exchanging views with the freedom he was gone some adventurous youth of two old friends.
would come along and-Lon's train of
"Of course," Celina told him, laugh thought suddenly stopped and began ing, "I have my ideas on love. Real again along new channels. love. It happens the minute a boy Celina was just closing her desk and girl see each other. All other preparatory to going to lunch when a love is false, for it is the type that is wild-eyed youth whom she recognized the result of effort."
as Lon Cabot burst into her office.
"Look, all that stuff you were tell- "Well, well!" declared Lon. "Recognition of this love at first ing me about impulse, about things sight," continued Celina, her face now happening quick and fast-you meant serious, "gives birth to impulse. And it didn't you?” impulse is the only means of getting
a genuine thrill out of courtship." "Why, yes, Lon, but" Startled, "Be kind enough to elucidate," urg. she stared at him in wide-eyed won-
ed Lon.
der.
"Well, it's like this: Cut and dried,
"Good! Swell! Look, I'm in love with matter-of-fact courtships and mar-
you, see! I've been in love with you riages rob love of its glamour. I
since you were six. Now, look, I'm mean, if things happen quick and fast, leaving for South America at seven without forethought and prearranged o'clock to-night. You'll have time to plans, there's an undeniable kick in it. pack. And this is the opportunity Soon enough a newly married couple you've talked about. I mean, here's have to settle down to the accepted
your chance to chuck your job and get
routines and patterns of life. Why a bang out of impulsive romance. How deprive them of the cherished memor about it?" ies of a glamorous courtship?"
Celina glanced at her watch, then "It's OK, by-me," Lon assured her.
eyes were sparkling. Curiously, during that day and the at Lon. Hor few days that followed, Lon was de- "Darling! To think that if you hadn't pressed. He didn't dare analyze his been given this opportunity you might feelings. But he knew without analy. never have proposed. Oh, you sweet, zing. He knew that he had fallen in handsome, romantic dumbbell, I'll be love with Celina Cook, and now that at the dock at six!"
he had become cognizant of her theor- (Copyright 1938, by The Associated
ies about this and that, he felt that he Newspapers),
didn't measure up: Good night; He
had known her since she was knee high
to a stunted duck. Did she think. hel
should have declared ardent love to her then? Apparently, according to her ideas on this love at first sight busi- ness?
And this business of impulse, of do- ing things quick and fast and getting, a kick out of it and then settling down to accopted patterns and routine. Lord! What were accepted patterns and rou-
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