14/17 The Yale Glee Club came to Westfield that year just before the holidays began, and Miss Jane let everybody go to the concert whose deportment had been above eighty--that of course included me. He had lovely dark gazelle-like eyes, and he sang funny songs without smiling. The whole school raved about him all the way home; we cut his picture out of the programme and pasted in the front of our watches. His name, father'-- she paused dramatically--'was Jerymn Hilliard Junior!' 'I sat up half the night writing diplomatic letters to you and Mrs. I was sixteen years old then; I wore sailor suits and my hair was braided down my back. |