But how?
_How_?"
Jane was indeed a _fidus A chates_. She went out to the
drug store and telephoned to Tom, being careful not to mention
my name, because of the clerk at the soda fountain listening,
saying merely to keep away from a Certain Person for a time as
it was dangerous. She then merely mentioned the word "revolver"
as meaning nothing to the clerk but a great deal to Tom. She
also aranged a meeting in the Park at 3 P. M. as being the hour
when father signed his mail before going to his Club to play
bridge untill dinner.
Our meeting was a sad one. How could it be otherwise, when
to loving Hearts are forbiden to beat as one, or even to meet?
And when one or the other is constantly saying:
"Turn your back. There is some one I know coming!"
Or:
"There's the Peters's nurse, and she's the worst talker you
ever heard of." And so on.
At one time Tom would have been allowed to take out their
Roadster, but unfortunately he had been forbiden to do so, owing
to having upset it while taking his Grandmother Gray for an
airing, and was not to drive again until she could walk without
cruches.
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