Mary Minds Her Business

g to the post-office. Helen had a number of letters to ma

ook to see who it was, and after saying to Helen, "This is Bob McAllister-one of our neighbours. He

Helen,

th a graceful gesture, and next she touc

even her walk, underwent a change. But when I try to tell you what I mean I feel as tongue-tied as a boy who is searching for a word which doesn't exist. As nearly as I ca

and Helen's smile unconsciously lingered on him for a second or two until, apparently recollecting th

was going on by her side, but when Helen shot a glance over her shoulder and whispered with sa

ou should never turn arou

s waist. And speaking in the voice of one who has just ach

ought t

ad parts of it to her cousin. She was a mimic, and two of the letters she

herself and feeling ashamed of it the same moment. "I thin

elen. "They're al

nk that of all

she started humming. Unobserved Ma'm Maynard had entered to straighten

ry, "you don't think that al

s," said Ma'm, pursing her lips with mystery. "E

won't

e fools … and I think it is also good at times to

d-I tell you I often think the old-world view

not to

u live. And halways the same conclusion arrives: Man is the natural enemy of a woman, and the one b

had turned from the mirror and was staring

cherie, which yo

woman's nat

nd it halways will. Everything that lives has its ow

at times that a tiger is out in the streets at night-such precautions are made if the girl she is out after d

ure' society? Why is marriage require'? Is it not because all the world knows well that a man

it isn't that way. You're simply turning thin

bien. Three husbands I've had.

ll say that woman is

ay, man might aspire to be as the gods; but halways at his helbow is a

f course I know some married people aren't happy. But it isn't always because they are married. Single people are unhappy, too. Aunt Patty has indigestion sometimes, and I suppose a lot of people do

would only shru

d. "When you have l

n window a cloc

the door she said, "I heard Aunt Patty say that Uncle Stanley was coming t