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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"Dangerous Days"

He's
to look as much as possible like you, but a trifle less nose. And
in the second place, after I've backed the car into a telegraph pole;
and turned it over in a ditch, Graham Spencer is just naturally
going to know I am no woman to tie to."
She got up and smiled at him.
"Anyhow, I wouldn't trust him with the communion service," she
added, and walking out onto the floor, blew shrilly on her whistle.
The rector watched her with growing indignation. These snap
judgments of youth! The easy damning of the young! They left no
room for argument. They condemned and walked away, leaving careful
plans in ruin behind them.
And Delight, having gone so far, went further. She announced that
evening at dinner that she would under no circumstances be
instructed by Graham Spencer. Her mother ventured good-humored
remonstrance.
"The way to learn to drive a car," said Delight, "is to get into it
and press a few things, and when it starts, keep on going. You've
got to work it out for yourself.


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