TWELFTH INSTALMENT
'.'We're modernists, Sandy," she
said. "Every night is a night out as
far as either of us is concerned
We're not playing the marriage
game according to the old senti
? mental standards, not Tony and I,"
Sandy's eyebrows came down, and
his eyes narrowed
"In that case," he said, "we might
have dinner together, tonlght-I'd
enjoy feeling like a husband-rob
bing Lothario for a change. I'm sort
of beginning to lose confidence in
myself."
Ellen felt just a little icy, in
^ It was the first time since
V wedding that she'd actually
made the break ? that she'd put her
self, married, in a position of ac
cepting social favors from another
man.
"Ill meet you anywhere you say,
Sandy," she told him, "at any time
you say."
"Let's make it a real party," he
said. "We'll dress, and I'll stop for
you at your place tn about an hour.
I don't suppose, by any chance, thai
you'd have a cocktail waiting for
me?"
"Marriage," she said, "hasn't
changed my ideas about that,
Sandy."
But she was all ready when he
Came for her "in an hour (she met
him at the door, he mustn't come
up to her so obviously unchanged
apartment!)
Sandy did it all very well! It was
as if that evening he were planning
to outdo himself ? to make the party
memorable. They rode in state to
one of the larger hotels that boasted
a dance orchestra and a roof, gar
den.
They were shot, in the hotel ele
vator to the roof garden. They were
shown to a table close beside the
dance floor.
"IPs a nice roof!" she told him?
and tried valiantly not to tell her- j
self that it would have been per- j
feet If Tony had been the one to j
hold back her chair, to seat himself
opposite her!
"I suppose," said Sandy, as he
studied the menu, "that the boy
friend is working, or something.
Well, more power to him!"
And Ellen echoed.
"More power to him," as she
folded her hands tight beneath the
damask table cloth, and let hei' eyes
wander across the room. As her
glance wandered from table to ta_
ble. she felt her body stiffen. For
there, directly across the dance
floor, immaculate in dinner jacket,
and with his blue eyes bluer than
ever, sat Tony. Tony wasn't alone,
either, for Jane in a wisp of devas
tatingly cut flame-colored chiffon,
sat opposite him.
"Why," Ellen whispered, and her
breath came in startled little gasps,
"why, there's Tony, nowl"
It wasn't that her voice carried, It
was that her thought carried! Tony
looked up from across the room as
sharp as Sandy did from across the
table. And then, without a word to
the girl in flame color who sat op
posite him, he was up out of his
feet, was coming over the polished
square of the dance floor."
"Say," he began, "this is a sur
prise!"
Sandy had risen, and was finger
ing the silkiness of his Vandyke
beard. The gesture was sophisticated,
perhaps, but the eyes above the
beard were frankly apprehensive.
"So it is," said Sandy. He grinned
nervously. "Just what does one do
in a situation like this?" he asked.
"It's all out of order!"
Ellen was laughing. She tried to
make her laughter sound casual.
"One says, 'Hello'," she said, "and
'goodby'."
Tony wasnt as brown as he had j
been when Ellen first saw him.
"You're all wrong, Ellen," he said.
"At a time like this, parties join to
gether! If you haven't ordered, come
over to our table."
There wasnt anything else to do.
Ellen, as gracefully as possible, and
wishing that her dress were pink or
blue or orchid or anything but white,
rose from her seat, and was es
corted by the two men back to the
place where the girl in flame chif
fon was sitting.
The waiter brought forward two
extra chairs, laid two extra places
on the table at which Tony and his
guest had already started their din
ner.
Then the music began. And Tony
said, "Dance?" ? looking at Ellen.
But Ellen wasn't dancing with Tony
tonight. Dancing with Tony always
had a ruinous effect upon her.
"Sandy, brought me," she said, I
I'll have this one with him."
It wasn't a jolly evening. But it j
managed to be adequately conver
sational and very polite. No refer- 1
ence was made to the last evening I
that the four spent together.
And then, after the dinner had j
been drawn out as long as possible. ,
it was time to go home! There was
nt anything else to do.
It was Sandy, not Tony, who de
cided the situation.
"I think, Jane." he said (they'd
never gotten past the -first name
stage), "that it's up to me to take
you heme, even though I started
the party with another gal! After
all, you know, we're on the outside,
looking in."
Jane bit her lip sharply.
"I've got my car down stairs," she
said, "I can take you all home you
know."
And at last, after detailed direc
tions had been given -to the chauf
feur, the car came to a stop in front
of Ellen's house. The moment had
arrived ? and Tony rose to it nobly.
"Thanks, Jane," he said, as he
helped Ellen out of the car. "You
werfr nice to come to dinner with
me ? and nice to bring us home."
It would have been all right if
Jane had left it that way ? if she j
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had just said a gracious goodnight.
For a moment one imagines that
she meant to, and then she leaned
out of the car and her slim, beauti
ful hand rested lightly upon the
sleeve of Tony's coat.
"Youll not forget," she said, "that
it's my birthday Saturday, and that
the crowd is coming down to our
country place for the weekend. You
said you'd be there, you know."
Tony mumbled something. It
sounded to Ellen like "I'll remem
ber." And then he was starting to
slam shut the door of the car. But
his movement was arrested by
Sandy's gay, tactless voice.
"Throwing a party," Sandy asked,
"and not inviting me! How come
Ellen should have somebody along
who talks her language. She'd be
lost with all of you folks ? who are
Philistines."
Sandy, you see, was assuming ?
the other three, Jane and Ellen and
Tony, realized it at the same hor
rible second? that Ellen was to be
a member of the party! The birth
day house party to which Jane had
invited Tony? Tony evidently, to her
mind, was still playing the role of
a bachelor!
"Of course, you can come, Sandy,"
she said sweetly, "If you want
to. It might be much more charm
ing for Ellen to have one of her
own? sort. Maybe you have the right
idea, at that."
And then the car had gone flash
ing down the street.
For a moment there was silence
before Ellen found words. Before
she spoke in a voice that was shot
through with bewilderment.
"And no'to," she said, "what are
we going to do?"
Tony laughed boyishly.
"I guess," he said, "that it's all
set! It begins to look as if you're
coming with me to a house party.
Sandy certainly put Jane in an odd
position, didn't he? But, as usual,
she came through one hundred per
cent."
"Yes," said Ellen, "yes, she did.
Jane did come through. As usual."
She spoke so softly that for all
Tony knew she was sighing. He
didn't know that all at once there
was a seething anger in her heart
"You're rather a peach, you
know," she told Tony, and her
tone was not all casual. "You've
made everything very easy for me,
tonight. But even though you're so
regular even though you've been
truly wonderful, I couldn't possibly
accept Jane's invitation ? I can't
possibly accept Jane's invitation ?
I can't possibily go to her party.
She was forced into asking me, you
realize that. She doesn't want me ?
why should she want me? It's you
she wants!"
Tony answered.
"I'd like, Ellen," he said, answer
ing the first part of her remark,
"to make all of life very easy for
you, if I could. That happens ? "
his voice had also lost its casual
note, "that happens to be the way
I care about you." He paused. And
then he was answering the last part,
rf what she had said to him.
"But," he added, "I do wish aw
fully you'd come to Jane's party.
She may have been forced into
asking you? I'm honest enough to
admit that she wjs ? but the im
portant thing is that she did ask
you. Under the circumstances, if
you don't go, I couldn't go either
now. And if I don't appear on Jane's
birthday, my crowd will think it's
strange. And so ? " even through the
dark EHen was aware of his smile,
"and so it would seem that we Ye
in a box. Fortunately we're in the
same box. Not ? " the smile "had
grown into his carefree young
laughter, "not that it isn't very
nice to be in a box with you!'
Ellen was turning again; they
were getting nowhere. She started
to move wearily toward the steps
of the house in which she lived.
Tony followed her. They climbed
the steps together, slowly.
"I don't know what to do. Tony,"
she said and her voice was vague.
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ride ? all of this business about
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Jane's party? Let's just wait and see
what happens.'
Tony was speaking: "Whether
you go to Jane's or not," he said,
and his tone was wistful, "I wish
we might have a few evenings to
gether. This has been sort of grand,
hasn't it? To me it's been kind of
crazy not seeing yoii since ? " his
voice lowered, "our wedding day."
For Just one second ? one second
out of all life ? Ellen dared to be
eager. She did not draw her hand
away, even though it was held so
loosely.
"Sometimes," she said, "during
the last two weeks I, too, felt that
we were silly. I'd be glad to see you
just as often as you want to see me,
you know." She said the last with
a rush. She tried not to emphasize
the word, "just as often as you want
to see me."
Tony answered vei*y seriously.
"That would be quite a lot," he said.
"I guess we won't go into that^i
guess you understand." He hesi
tated slightly. "Well, I guess it's
goodnight."
Ellen was faltering there in the
doorway. She took a step forward
? Tony was very close, it was a
short step. But despite his close
ness, he couldn't know that she
was near to yielding ? to making
crazy, sweet admissions.
"Won't you come up," she asked,
"for just a minute?"
But Tony wo a moving away from
her, down the steps. It seemed as
if the distance was automatically
widening between them.
"I'd like to," he said, "but I don't
trust myself to come up with you.
Unless ? your invitation means more
than I think it does. You must rea
lize why I can't"
Ellen was fumbling with her
latch key. She knew in her soul
that she must open the door quick
ly, before she told Tony how much
she wanted him to come in, how
much she wanted him not to trust
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himself. She couldn't make that
move ? she wouldn't. He wouldn't
be given a chance to hurt her pride,
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"My party," read the pseudo
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"I won't go," ? sne was storming,
"I won't! I wont! I won't!"
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"Ilm w)ondering." Sandy wrote,
"if I can go up to Jane's party with
you and Tony, on Saturday? Drive
up with you, I mean. I've decided
to accept the gal's invitation ? It
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