"
"Do I understand that you forbid him the house?" Leila
asked, in a cold furey.
"Just keep him out of my sight," father snaped. "I supose
I can't keep him from swilling tea while I am away doing my part
to help the Allies"
"Oh, rot!" said Sis, in a scornfull maner. "While you help
your bank account, you mean. I don't object to that, father, but
for Heaven's sake don't put it on altruistic grounds."
She went upstairs then and banged her door, and mother
merely set her lips and said nothing. But when Beresford called,
later, Tanney had to tell him the Familey was out.
Were it not for our afections, and the necessity for
getting married, so there would be an increase in the
Population, how happy we could all be!
LATER: I have seen father.
It was a painfull evening, with Sis shut away in her room,
and father cuting the ends off cigars in a viscious maner.
Mother was _non est_, and had I not had my memories, it would
have been a Sickning Time.
I sat very still and waited until father softened, which he
usualy does, like ice cream, all at once and all over.
Pages:
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221