6/36 "I've had my tub, and now I'm going to dress up and behave like a good citizen. You're a duck, Adele, to put up with a worn-out wreck, as I was yesterday, but now I'm myself again. I want to go for a motor ride, and for a walk, and eat a big luncheon, and come back to life, generally." "Good for you! And have you settled all the troublesome affairs that were bothering you ?" "How did you know I had any ?" "Now, don't confide in me unless you want to." Wily Adele knew the touch of perversity in Patty's make-up. I got fearfully mad at Bill Farnsworth, and I ran up here to get away from him. That's the story of my life." "What was the bone of contention ?" "Well, I suppose I was. |