More Stories of Married Life

Clasp him to her breast
More Stories of Married Life
By Mary Stewart Cutting
New York McClure, Phillips & Co. Mcmvi
Copyright, 1906, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published March, 1906
Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, by The S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1902, 1903, by Perry Mason Company Copyright, 1904, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1906, by The Butterick Publishing Company



Anita Gibbons has been waiting outside at the station on the bench nearest the field since twenty minutes of six, and it was now nearly seven as she rose to go. The bright pleasure with which she had started out was fled: he had not come. The sun, wind, and reform of the spring afternoon, in combination with a becoming new suit and hat, had produced their annual effect of inspiring her to surprise her husband by meeting him on his return from town, that they might walk home bridally together in the sweet evening daylight. She had been hitherto undeterred by remembrance of the historic fact that Mr. Gibbons was never known to come on time when thus pleasurably expected; but memory was beginning to chill her now, as well as the wind on her back. She had done all this before!
Yet what business unknown this morning; could have kept him? It was neither the first nor the last of the month, always mysterious days of threatened detention. He had not passed her by unnoticed, for she had risen as each train came in to scan the men who dropped on to the platform and hurried off, some of them looking back to raise their hats to the pretty woman on the platform.