THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFIL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1934.
Married Flirts by MARBEL
CHAPTER XXXVI
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fold bor in his long urme,
MCELLIOTT
Įnotice, particularly if he were un-
"Don't you think so?"
""Been painting the town again?" | responsive."
"Yes. Oh, I must tell you, Ronny has the most marvellous old welcoming way and he wouldly all through dinner and would not
She would smile at him in the idea. She would talk cager-it
of humour. You saw him on the, wiches had been so good avenue these days, broad shoulders The door would slam. Tom Elenme back to work on her set off to advantage by his well would be in the doorway. "Hello, old schedule and, with the sud-stting British clothes. He swung darling!" denneas of a butterfly released from a stick. Girls riding to the tops Its nest, Gypsy began to rush about of buses craned their necks to see whenever she was free. David was him. "Oh." they said: "Ion't he in good hands when Elsa was preslike Gary Cooper?"
ent. He and the clumsy but gentle. He would offer Gypsy a lift up- Angered mald understood each town as they left the Eighth atreet other and Gypsy could play with an studio-Ronny's or Elspeth Harris'
mind. This was what she place on Barrow street. needed, she told herself, what she "Coming my way he would had been wanting,
tron Bay, smiling.
She had known a gay, frrespon-
Gypsy would waver. "I was go- sible crowd in her pro-marital days.ing to stop at the French pastry She went back to them how. She shop on Sixth and get some brioche went to cocktail parties in Green- for breakfast."
wich Village, exhibitions of snod- "Well, come along. The taxi can ern paintings. motion picture wait, can't it?" showings to the Inner circle. She
no wor-
hought some new clothes and bad n It was fun; It was all fun. To new, daring hair cut. In many play at being a girl again, to ways she was the guy, pleasure lov-pretend for a little while there: Ing girl, she had been before her were no responsibilities, marriage. She laughed a great ries. Of course you always went deal. She had begun to learn the home to the baby and Tom with a newest dancing steps. The tele- thankful feeling. It was wonder- phone rang often these days and ful, back of all this playing and who would alt, drumming her laughing and chatting, to feel that fingers, trying to decide whether or your life was secure, settled. Just not she could make that particular the same, the dash of freedom ten or whether Elsa could be por-made Gypsy rounder, rosier, pret- sunded to stay late again.
ther than she had been in years.
Tom said he, approved of the She looked about her at the peo- change, although sometimes youple she know, the completely un- enught a puzzled light in his eyes. fettered ones, and found that sho This chameleon, this flushed, dark-did not envy them. Elspeth was haired young person in the well cut thin hand, nervous at 29; In gray suit was curiously unlike love with a
married
man from the discouraged, pallid giri who Park avenue. Ronny had been. had complained last winter of the married and diyorced and so had routine of dishes, bottles and napa. Willa Burns and one or two of the Since Gypsy's return she hadn't other
nid a single word about their old difficulties. She had behaved us though nothing had ever happened to disturb her placidity. He didn't quite understand the change but he was grateful for it.
Manlike, he was interested in and attracted by the transforma- tion. Of course Gypsy was his girl-his wife-no matter how she looked nor what she did to herself. But, although he approved her gafety and spirit in theory, 'some- times he missed the old Gypsy with
girls, None of them, had children. She would rush Into the apartment After an afternoon punctuated by frenzied chatter. scented with algarette smoke and the dregs of a cocktail shaker. She would bury her face in the pink warmth and sweetness of David's baby neck.
"Wan he good, Elsa ?"
"Oh, sure, he fine." Elsa would wriggle out of her apron.
"Take his carrots all right?". "Ya, he eat um all up." "Well, now I've got to settle
her serious talk of budgets and down to business." She would cheap cuta and her adorable frown huma
dance tune. looking
over the laundry list. This girl abstractedly into'. the icebox. was far too busy to bother with | Asparagus and cold lamb and laundry lists. There were buttons anlad; Tom would like that. She missing from Tom's things nowa waan't hungry. Those pate sand- days and his brown and blue socks
had holes in the toes, Orten het came home in the evening to find her still away and Elsa muttering over the pots and pans, anxiour to put on her big shapeless hat and remove herself to that mysterious realm from which she would emerge the next working day.
Tom would be left to give David ta bottle. Presently Gypsy would flash in with a gardenia at her throat and the scent of cigarettes clinging to her cool, fresh check.
"Sorry, darling. I had no idea it was so late. Ronny Burgess hnd Russian violinist and it was so thrilling!"
She would tie a big apron over her sheer black frock with its frilly collar. Smiling atill over the after- noon, she would serve Tom cold him and potato chips and salad, She seldom bothered to cook much now. For one thing, the weather was growing warmer. For an- other, she hadn't the time and Elsa was a most indifferent chef. Be- sides Tom didn't care. He used to be bored, she thought now, with all those fancy messes she had pre- pared for him. That was little bride stuff Well, she had got bravely over that pluse.
Was ex-
It was thrilling-it hillrating to be received back in- to the old circle as an equal. At first people had openly patronized her. "low's the baby?" they had asked negligently. "How's mother. hood?"
But they had got pust that now, She was one of them. She bad even joined a class in sculpture, and it was, she said, "Inspiring." . It was queer but the prospect of spending the summer in the apart- ment didn't daunt her now. Last year she had been unable to bear the very notion. But that had been because of her condition. She felt atrong now and it was fun to be within reach of things. Why, if she moved to the suburba she would miss out on all the in- vitations she now accepted so eagerly. No one would remember her if she burled herself in some little house on a alde rond.
When Tom said something about trying to find a place on the Island sho smiled and shook her head. "Don't bother, darling. We'll bo all right. I don't mind the city any more. Besides, everyone says wo're going to have a cool sum
mor"
The puzzled look came into his oyes again and he said no more.
More often than not Gypsy on- countered Hunt Gibson at theso festivities. Hunt was very much the_young-man-about-town at the moment and he had met these peo- ple through Sue Canavan. The more Gypsy saw of him the better she like him. He was alwayə so amusing. He had a grand sonso
Tom would stero her, that puzzled small-boy: ex-
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