The Adventures of Sally

o blame if we are ignorant of what to do before the doctor comes, of how to make a dainty winter coat for baby out of father's last year's under-vest and of the best method o

consequence, for a few moments mer

ly, finding speech. "Ask

looked at he

bit of an effort. I don't know why it is, but talking French always makes me feel as

you no heart? Are you one of

o Jules, and paused to

. "It's the only real way of learning French, and you'

hing, it seemed to me. I thou

ge, doesn't it? I'm sure

out partridges at

rench are extrao

give him the least encouragement, he sort of goes off like a rocket." He addresse

is, he says, that if we yell and rouse the house, we'll get out all right, but he will lose his job, because this i

now. As far as I can gather, there's just a chance of somebody else coming in later, in which

the car down to the ground-floor, and then we'll just sit and amuse ourselves till some

ging at the keys on the distant desk, the sort of glance which Moses must have cast at the Promised Land from the summit of M

" she said. "It will

ks aw

ly, "tell me why Sc

confusion which had rendered him so ill at ease when he had encountered Sally in the hall of the hotel; but at this questi

I'm fearfully sorry

Scrym

uch a most ghastly ass of myself this morning

nice and complimentary. Of course, I don't know

t! It makes me f

ide. But I know you're a fair-minded m

to know, I think your mouth is absolutely perfect. I think," he proceeded, a

tell me about Scrym

ided with some hard object while sleep-

said. "Oh, that

hing to do till to-morrow but talk about ourselves. I want to hear all about you, and then I'll tell you all about myself. If

, yes, I see

put it as clearly as I c

em

e first

e always rather hushed up my first name, because when

ingly. "My father's name was Ezekiel, and

hat... No, I don't mean that," he broke off apolog

," said

is that I don't look like a Lancelot and never shall. My p

ame them,"

nking of me as Ginger?'' sugge

tain

wfully go

at

runted. No other sound came to d

e about yourself?" said M

myself," said Sally, "not because

it

use I think it wi

ll, re

ked at hi

she inquired, "or

wfully

e your life-history, and you wouldn't believe how inquisitive I am. Well, in the first place, I live in America. I'm over here on a holi

!" said G

your

ight. I bet you

ust-as-good homes which are never as satisfactory as the real kind. My father and mother both die

ingly, "are the devil. I've got

ine till I was twenty-one. My brother was to get his when he was twenty-f

e blighter emb

ell, mine was. But the trouble was that, while an excellent man to have looking after one's money, he wasn't a very

hi

st now that my brothe

brother. O

uncle vowed he would have nothing more to do with him. So I said, if Fill left, I would leave. And, as this seemed to be my uncle's idea of a large evening, no objection was raised, and Fill and I departed. We went to New York, an

. I mean to say, you must have had an awful time in

ving been raised in enervating luxury, was ballroom dancing, so I ball-room danced. I got a job at a place in Broadway called 'The Flower Garden' as what is

rfectly

foot by more fat men than any other girl of my age in America. I don't know why it was, but every man who came in who was a bit overweight seemed to make for me by instinct. That's why I like to

olutely rotten it mu

a little place in the country somewhere, with my knitting and an Elsie book, and bed at half-past nine! And now tell me the story of your life. And make it long b

we had better

Jules his

poor old Jules' troubles, but I

ith the story