Should She Have Left Him? — page 67: what you’re looking at

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MARRIAGE A LA MODE. 6x “Tracey,” said that most extraordinary woman in response to a subtle compliment, the coinage of which had delayed his breakfast an hour, ‘“ Tracey, it is great folly to make love to me.” The young man thought of something about folly and sweetness, but it did not take form in words quickly enough, for she went on: “Tt is such a waste of your time.” He rose to the occasion: “No time is wasted which is devoted to you,” he said most gallantly, and with his most ravishing smile. “Nonsense,” laughed this most incomprehensi- ble of her sex. “It is all wasted, from your stand- point. You’re a very nice boy, Tracey, and getting Over your youth very commendably. I am willing to be your friend. But you must stop making love tome. I fall out of love much more quickly than I fall intoit. Why, dear boy, I don’t remain in love long enough to serve the purpose of a single after- noon’s gossip.” “Oh, I say, Mrs. Trevor-Allen,” protested Tracey, “you do yourself such injustice, you know.” “Oh, no, dear boy,” she exclaimed with a quizzi- cal twinkle in her dancing blue eyes, “‘ but I am try: ing to do you justice. I want to be your friend. You see, Tracey, dear boy, while you are quite an adept at love-making, you have not reached that degree of perfection when you can make a woman forget her marriage vows. Perhaps I amall very well to practice on, but really, in view of the career you Comicloee SS C@ 3