[Miss Billy's Decision by Eleanor H. Porter]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Billy's Decision CHAPTER X 17/21
You have to!--to doing things.
That's what I told Mary Jane yesterday, when he was running on about what _he_ wanted to do--in his singing, you know." Bertram stiffened a little.
A quick frown came to his face. "Mary Jane, indeed! Of all the absurd names to give a full-grown, six-foot man! Billy, do, for pity's sake, call him by his name--if he's got one." Billy broke into a rippling laugh. "I wish I could, dear," she sighed ingenuously. "Honestly, it bothers me because I _can't_ think of him as anything but 'Mary Jane.' It seems so silly!" "It certainly does--when one remembers his beard." "Oh, he's shaved that off now.
He looks rather better, too." Bertram turned a little sharply. "Do you see the fellow--often ?" Billy laughed merrily. "No.
He's about as disgruntled as you are over the way the wedding monopolizes everything.
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