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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