I
have managed to put the fear of God into Eileen's heart so that
she has agreed to a reasonable allowance for me from the first of
next month; but she must have felt at least one small wave of
contrition when I told her about a peculiarly enticing dress I
had seen at The Mode. She sent it up right away, and Katy,
blessed be her loving footprints, loaned me money to buy a blouse
and some shoes to match, so I went to school today looking very
like the Great General Average, minus rouge, lipstick, hairdress,
and French heels.
I do hope you will approve of two things I have done.
Then Linda recounted the emptying of the billiard room, the
inroads in the library, the listing of the technical books, and
what she proposed to do with the money. And then, her face
slightly pale and her fingers slightly trembling, she wrote:
And, Marian dear, I hope you won't be angry with me when I tell
you that I have put the Bear Cat into commission and driven it
three times already. It is running like the feline it is, and I
am being as careful as I can. I know exactly how you will feel.
It is the same feeling that has held me all these months, when I
wouldn't even let myself think of it. But something happened at
school one day, Marian. You know the Whitings? Mary Louise
Whiting's brother is in the senior class. He is a six-footer,
and while he is not handsome he is going to be a real man when he
is fully developed, and steadied down to work.
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