But I felt that I must talk to somone. So I said:
"Eddie, if you had your choice of love or a Career, which
would it be?"
"Why not both," he said, hiching the rubber band onto one
of his front teeth and playing on it. "Niether ought to take up
all a fellow's time. Say, listen to this! Talk about a
eukelele!"
"A woman can never have both."
He played a while, struming with one finger until the hand
sliped off and stung him on the lip.
"Once," I said, "I dreamed of a Career. But I beleive
love's the most important."
Well, I shall pass lightly over what followed. Why is it
that a girl cannot speak of Love without every member of the
Other Sex present, no matter how young, thinking it is he? And
as for mother maintaining that I kissed that wreched Child, and
they saw me from the drawing-room, it is not true and never was
true. It was but one more Misunderstanding which convinced the
Familey that I was carrying on all manner of afairs.
Carter Brooks had arrived that day, and was staying at the
Perkins' cottage. I got rid of the Perkins' baby, as his Nose
was bleeding--but I had not slaped him hard at all, and felt
little or no compunction--when I heard Carter coming down the
walk.
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