Life — March 1, 1923 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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My friends charitably de- cide that it must be Millicent’s fault. Millicent’s friends put the blame on me. And our mutual friends? Well, you see, that’s just it. Theoretically, of course, when we married, my friends were to be Mil- licent’s friends, and Millicent’s friends were to be my friends. We talked all that out beforehand, and decided to be broad. But somehow it hasn’t seemed to work out. Take Kate Allenby, for instance. Now I've known Kate Allenby ever since I first inhabited long trousers, and she’s an awfully good sort. Yet for some unknowable reason, Milli- cent simply can’t see her at all. Of course she was polite, that time we had Kate to dinner. But that’s just She was so horribly polite! Yet I’ve never been able to get anything definite out of her. “Kate,” says Millicent, when I become especially pressing, “or Miss Allenby, as I prefer to think of her, just—well, Alfred, she just simply isn’t, that’s all. Of course she's the sort to take a man in—” Now that kind of thing always makes me mad. As though I were a dog, or a tuck, or something, to be taken in or let out when anyone pleased ! “Millicent,” dead wrong. nothing flirty think, just hair—” “Red?” sniffs Millicent. “Well, if don't know henna by now—” But I shan’t bore you with all that. You see how absolutely un- reasonable Millicent is. Poor, loyal old Kate. It isn’t as if she were like that frightful ass of a _Fortescue, I reply firmly, “you're There's absolutely about Kate. You because she has red — RITE for your copy now and have the i pleasure of planning your next garden dur- | ing the long winter evenings. 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