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Contrary Mary by Temple Bailey
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Lilah smiled and shrugged. "But that wasn't the worst. One day--I
eloped."

She was making them all listen. The old men and the young one, and the
man at the other table.

"I eloped with a boy from Prep. He was nineteen, and I was two years
younger. We started by moonlight in Romeo's motor car--it was great fun.
But the clergyman wouldn't marry us. I think he guessed that we were a
pair of kiddies from school--and he scolded us and sent me back in a
taxi----"

The tall, thin old gentleman was protesting. "My dear----"

"Oh, you didn't know, Daddy darling," she said. "I got back before I was
discovered, and let myself in by the door I had unlocked. But I couldn't
keep it from the girls--it was such fun to make them--shiver."

"And what became of Romeo?" Porter asked.

"He found another Juliet--a lovely little blonde and they are living
happy ever after."

Leila's eyes were round. "But I don't see," she began.

"Of course you don't, duckie. To me, the whole thing was an adventure
along the road--to you, it would have been a heart-break."

Her words came clearly to Roger. That, then, was what love meant to some
women--an adventure along the road. One man served for pleasuring, until
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