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The Married Life of
Helen and Warren
Warren, Bored and Irritable, Ignores
Helen'a Efforts to Divert Him.
"Here, waiter, switch on that fan!
Hot as blazes in here," grumbled
Warren. "And hustle along that or
der." "Yes, sir," hastening to turn on
the electric fan nearest their table.
"Dear, was it hot in jour office
today?" Helen laid aside the menu
after an anxious appraisal of the
piratic prices.
"Hot everywhere, curtly, again
eiiRrosscd in his paper.
Wistfully Helen gazed about the
gray and white, linen-swathed res
taurant. Other couples were laugh
ing and talking in animated dinner
mood. Only she sat silent and neg
lected with Warren barricaded be
hind the evening paper.
What could she talk about that
would interest him? So far her sev
eral attempts at conversation had
elicited only monosyllable grunts.
"Dear, how would you like to go
out to the Drakes next Sunday?
They've been wanting us to come
all summer we ve just to let them
know."
"Um-tmi," without looking up.
"If you don't want to spend the
day we could leave about 1 and
have the afternoon and evening."
To this there was no response
whatever. Patiently she waited,
reading the headlines on the back
of his paper until the waiter brought
the jellied bouillon.
His attention now focused on the
congealed amber broth, Warren
consumed it in stolid silence.
"Dear, you seem tired. Did you
have a hard day?"
"No harder than usual." with a
crustiness that precluded further
questioning along that line.
It was several moments before she
ventured on another topic.
"Aren't those red geraniums at
tractive?" admiring the well-kept
window boxes. "I've often thought
of having some in the dining room
that bay window would take three
boxes. Would they have to be made
to order? What do you suppose
they'd cost?"
Warren's shrug indicated both his
ignorance and indifference.
A barren, dragging interval, em
phasized by the vivacious chatter
trom nearby tables, spurred Helen to
still another effort.
"I met Mrs. Holden in the elevator
this morning. They're going up to
Cedar Inn for two weeks. Wasn't
that where the Sanfords went last
summer?"
"Uh-uh," scooping out a large
spoonful of the quivering jelly.
"I'm sure they won't like it. Mrs.
Sanford said they were eaten up with
mosquitoes. I wonder why they
don't go to the beach again?
Wouldn't you think it would be bet
ter for the children?"
"Well. I'm not losing any sleep
over where they go," as the broth
now finished, he reached for the
paper.
Discouraged at the pathetic failure
of her conversational nianocuvers,
Helen broodingly regarded the other
diners. What were they all talking
about? Why were they all so inter
ested? Was it because they were not
married? Was that what made the
difference?
Shethought of that wonderful year
before and during their engagement
when dmine out together was an
event, not a part of the daily
routine. Then there had been so
much to talk about. Tvery trivial
thing had seemed of vital im
portance. Now Warren looked bored to ex
tinction ' at every subject she
broached. It Vvas an effort to get
even a grunted resporse.
Over the fntre$ of broiled mush
rooms she tried, to think of some
thing in her uneventful day that
might arouse a gleam of interest.
"Oh, the man came this morning
to fix that lock on the bathroom
door. He said the spring was
broken it'll be cheaper to put on a
bolt. We never lock it from the
outside so won't a bolt do just as
well?"
"S'pose so," absently.
It was just then that Helen caught
a snatch of the trivial but lively dia
logue from the adjoining table.
"I did call you up but your wire
was busy. Well, that's what central
said. About 3. I tried again at
half-past but you were out."
It was the old story of "Before and
After," reflected Helen bitterly,
comparing this couple's absorption
with Warren's utter, boredom.
Over the roast lamb and aspara
gus she made another attempt.
"Dear, did you read that wireless
story in this month's Colmore's?
About the politician who had a se
cret station and received messages
from
"Oh, cut it! Don't rehash any of
those Colmore yarns. Tiresome
enough when you read 'em first
and."
"Why I thought the last few num
bers had been rather good. They've
started a new serial by Fullerton.
Haven't you seen the announcement?
They're advertising it everywhere."
, "Same old sex slush, buttering his
asparagus.
"Evidently that's what the people
want," eager to pursue any subject
if he would only talk. "They say
he gets enormous prices he's the
highest paid of all the magazine
writers.
But Warren's glum silence pro
claimed his complete indifference to
Fullerton's stories or the amount of
his income.
Through the salad Helen made no
further attempt to divert him. In
stead she gave herself up to tin
blackest brooding.
Were all marriages like this; Was
it only a matter of a few years until
the boredom stage was reached?
Was it the continuous companion
ship that so soon palled?
Was that why articles on how to
hold one's husband filled the women's
magazines? Keep young and attrac
tive were the ever-repeated warnings.
But she was young and attractive!
the mirrored wall reflected a slim
girlish figurt in a dainty blue o
gandie and broad wheat-trimmed
hat She was quite as attractive as
the girl at the adjoining table but
they were not married! That was
why the man leaned forward with
such flattering interest
Glancing past them, she watched
an elderly couple who had just en
tered. In wooden silence they were
waiting to be served. The woman,
tout and ra-haired, looked quite ,
as bored as the man Helen won
dered how many years before she,
too, would reach that stage.
Perhaps it would be more com
fortable then. Anything would be
better than this feverish striving to
arouse an interest that had ceased to
exist.
"Hello, Curtis I Yo.t still in town?"
"Maxwell! When did you get in?"
Warren sprang up to shake hands
with a stout man' in white flannels.
"Yesterday jimt a hurried trip.
Going back tonight."
"I don't believe you've met Mrs.
Curtis," introducing him to Helen.
Then cordially, "Sit right down here
ami have dinner with us."
"Just had dinner in the grill.
We're going to the theater but I've
a few moments," taking the vacant
chair.
"Well, you certainly struck it hot
this trip. Mrs. Maxwell with you?
"No, she's up at our camp on the
St. Lawrence.
"Jove, I'd like to have about two
weeks up there! Your camp's near
Brockville, isn't it? Finest bass
fishing in Canada," enthused War
ren. 'T caught a seven-pounder
there one year.
"Yes, Brockville's just five miles
below us. They're putting up a big
hotel there and we re afraid it s go
ing to bring the mob."
With smoldering resentment Hel
en watched V arren, now vigorous
ly animated. His bored air had van
ished the moment Mr. Maxwell ap
peared. Here was some one with
whom he wanted to talk.
For a full half hour Mr. Maxwell
lingered. And when finally with
evident reductance he left them,
Warren was still in high good
humor.
"That was luck to run into Max
well. Haven't seen him for over a
year." Then briskly, "Feel like a
show tonight? How about a roof
garden? Here, waiter, let's have
the check."
Outside, in the cloying sultry
night, he strolled along, still genial.
Helen was allowed to bask in the
afterglow of Mr. Maxwell's enliven
ing presence.
She knew she should gratefully
accept his changed mood and say
nothing, but her resentment urged
her to a tactless rebellion.
"Warren, do you consider Mr.
Maxwell particularly clever or interesting?"
Maxwell? surprised. "Why, no.
He's a good sort but he'll never
set the world on fire."
"Then you don't especially enjoy
his companionship?" recklessly she
persisted. "You wouldn't say he
was unusually stimulating?"
"Stimulating? Maxwell? What're
you driving at?"
"Just this," tensely. "Until he
joined us you sat there glum and
silent. I couldn't get a word out of
you. When 1 tried to talk you only
answered in grunts. But the minute
he came you were all animation."
"What of it?" belligerently.
"What're you trying to get at, any
way.'
"That I bore you and other oeo-
ple don't!" now flushed and excited.
"You say he isn't particularly clever
that makes it worse. It shows that
anyone else can interest you. You're
only bored when you're alone with
me.
"See here, what are you trying to
start: Working overtime on soma
of your damned analyzing, that it?
You've got to pick everything to
pieces and put it under a micro
scope."
"It didn't take a microscope to see
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