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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1984.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER 1

Don't think that I mind if you talk about her whole life.

Jane

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"All right," said Amy resigned-, in all sincerity. to Henry Berwyn for two hours Marburg wasn't even a county ly. "I'll come by for yu as soon "No, I'm not going with you and and a half steadily, though it must seat, just a nice old sprawling as I change my shoes.] "you know you don't mind. Jane, have been a chore. He's such a college town with a few factories

very alim and pink and deflant dumb boy. I know perfectly well at the west end to give a faint They would play on the college hung over the banister at the top you wouldn't have done it except flavour of commerce, And Marcourts, though these were not open

"Did Momma March tell her? of the stairs and threw the words you thought it would shock and burg College was just a nice old to the townspeople durlig vacation. You might have known she would. down at her waiting aunt,

one Amy's father was piessor bother the chaperons. You're too sprawling college with only

of So.that's why you didn't go They invited you and you smart to enjoy being with Henry claim to distinction, that great geo-history, and faculty fallies were the tea. What did Miss Rosa cepted. What will I say?" Miss but you're not smart enough to see logist Professor Benjamin Ellert, privileged to use couts, library

Bay"T Rosa Terry offered this question what a losing game it is to do whose name and work were known and the enclosed gardens of mildly, meanwhile fitting new white something you don't enjoy for the whorever civilized man considered administration building. By the "She and I was too smart real. gloves on her plump white hands.

sake of appearing odd and different the earth's bones. The Ellert time Jane had put ca her own ly to enjoy talking to Henry but "Say I've got lots of pleasanter and making people notice you and Geological Museum was small but tennis shoes and take her racket not smart enough to see what a fool I am to do something I don't things to do than go to their old disapprove of you. It's just a form authentic and complete and scholars from its case Amy had arrived.

the enjoy for the sake of shocking "Why didn't you go to of vanity, my dear." With the from all over the world came to What, for instance 7"

Jaat word Mian Rosa opened the soo it.

Marchs party?" asked Jane as people. She said it "Tell Mrs. March that I'm right front door and was on the other

they started.

vanity." I In

"Mother wanted to go, so the middle of Ann Veronica side of it before an answer could Two lines of thought went on

"There's one mile thing about and can't bear to stop. She won't

catch her.

aide by side in Jane's head ns she stayed with Grandpa, he isn't so let Louise rend it."

read, both slight but distinct. The well to-day. I did nearly an hour's your Aunt Rosa," said Amy, con- sidering this. "She always talks thing "I'm to tell Mrs. March that al-

dushing furiously first was regret that she couldn't extra practice. Tucky though you said you'd come to her downstairs but Miss Rosa had do something exciting, and the Grandpa likes it poor old lambi like a human being. She decan't lay down the laty, but sort of puts tea you are reading a book she die walked fast and as she reached the second that there, was no man she Father came in

Susc When YOU Annphoned. pavement she was fortunate enough had ever met at all like

That's why I could, the subjent before you and you're approves of and couldn't bear to

free to use your own judgment." .stop." The gloves were on now and to meet two ladies whom she knew, Veronica's ruddy blond Capes. leave."

***What d'you you'll ever do itYou ought to be, hér. niece Miss Rosa was turning in front of ales dressed up and on their way Presently Jane dropped, her book the long ball mirror. She was to the March tea, so she proceeded and hunted in the bottom bureau with your music! You slave away instead of me!" Jane began olegant in dark violet tafeta and on with them triumphantly, having drawer for the puck of cigarettes at it and you play people's accom- look dark, and tragic. u violet toque with a white dotted managed to read Jane a lecture or she had hidden there. At least she paniments and noys and then you Amy quickly changed the sub- vell. Her purple and white striped the beach affair and escape without could smoke and Aunt Rosa dle-play the organ in church, but I ject.. "I'm thankful that

mencement's over and all the boys parasol with an ivory handle walta scene. Miss Rosa Terry detest-approved of girls smoking. So don't see what it got

Sunday night ed on the table with her shiny darked scones, just as she detested

clae in Marburg, ilid everyone

"I love doing! ft. Fanioy it. gone. Father's purple leather handbag. She an hard bed, a badly cooked dinner. Even Jate didn't have the daring What more could it get me than student suppers bored me terribly

this year." noyed Jane. She was so comfort-

A poor partner at whist, and to buy cigarettes for herself in the that?" ably stout, so inexorably serene, scratches on her furniture: but in local tobacco shops. Henry Berwyn Jane. frowned. That's very The boys like them, though. "I don't care what you tell Mrs. the 15 years since she had taken had given her these and that was philosophic, I suppose. Oh, I do Everybody says your father's the March," Jane said angrily. "She's her brothor's orphaned daughter to Henry's greatest attraction, though wish there was something I liked most popular professor in college." an old cat, and I won't go there to live with her Jane was then he didn't know it.

dolug, something I could devote Jane spoke absently. She had no be looked at the way she looks at lovely, dimpled, wilful five-year-old Jane antoked gloomily and choked myself to, something big and grand Interest in any topic but herself. me and then picked over afterward she had never, not once, tried to when she tried to inhale. If there and thrilling! This town's Who is she to make the rules for correct or admonish Jane without were only something exciting to dead

ditchwater. There's The tennis courts were at the back of the gymnasium and as tho the young people of this town any drama. To-day Miss Rosa smiled do! She stared around the room,nothing here.” way? If she'd keep better tabs on to herself at her success in dodging hating the dark, tall dresser, the Well, you're nyfully clever, two girls turned to the patch across her angel darling Laufse, she'd all but the prelude. They had not massive high bed, the large roses Jane. Anything you wanted to do the campus Amy stopped. "Walt have plenty to do instead of watch-reached the big act where Jane on carpet and wallpaper, the knotted you'd make go." Amy offered this Continued on Page 4.),

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sprend, the pair of alabaster vases "You're peevish becauso she told stormed and sobbed that she was on the mantel. "Looke ng me you went off with Henry Berwyn the most unhappy girl in the world, General Grant chose it," she an- at that last beach pienic and stayed that no one cared what she did or nounced aloud, "with his whiskers!" from nine to eleven-thirty and were how she felt.

Aunt Rosa might be Tiberal-minded pert to the chaperons when they Through the old-fashioned ruby on the subject of Henry Berwyn, spoke to you about it. It was glass side panel of the door Jane but when it came to changes in her silly. You know perfectly well watched Miss Rosa out of sight house she was rock. The you'd be talked about."

angrily. "Old people are horrible." had the colidity of her will. "I don't care if I am. I don't she thought confusedly. "They When the cigarette was at Inst care what anybody says about me don't want anybody young to be finished, somewhat to Jane's rélief, in this dump."

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that she wrapped the ashes and butt in

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Ms Rosa picked up her bak her aunt would urge her to go to a wad of crumpled paper, put it and parasol, gave herself one last the tea and really she wanted to into the wastebasket and went approving glance.

go and show off her new organdy, down to telephone to her dearest "If you don't care what people a startling black and scarlet which friend. Amy Lowe had probably say about you, Janie, you can be she'd Inaleted on having though gone to the Marchs', but she'd be very sure that people won't eare Miss Rosa and the dressmaker had sure. what they say. And in a little city begged her to choose, elther pale No, Amy, was at home.. "What like Marburg where social circles yellow or Nile green... Of course, are you doing?" asked Janez: "Let's are small and intimate everybody's she could skip into the dress and have some tennis. The always under observation it can't appear late at the Marchs but ought to be dry enough by now." be helped. The only places where then Aunt Rosa would say, "Oh, I Amy hesitated. Why don't we you can do conspicuous things and knew, you'd come," and that would just go for a walk? not be conspicuous are desert be unbearable. She picked up her

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islanda or big cosmopolitan cities." book and read on with a sense of tennis. I want to do something "You've said that before?" boing tantalized and cheated, not with some action to it. Walking

probably say it again. only about the March tan but bores me to death.”

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