MUNSEY’S
MAGAZINE
APRIL, 1924
Vol. LXXXI NUMBER 3
His Remarkable Future
THE STORY OF A RAPTUROUS BUT SOMEWHAT TUMULTUOUS ENGAGEMENT
By Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
“HAVEN’T you any umbrella?” asked Hardy, with a frown.
“I have one,” answered Miss Patterson, “but not here.”
She was dignified, he was somewhat severe. Both were important, preoccupied, adult persons, full of business concerns; nevertheless, they did not quite know how to proceed with the conversation. They stood side by side in the lobby of the office building, looking not at all at each other, but at the steady and violent rain. Miss Patterson was reluctant to walk off in such a downpour, and Hardy was determined that she should not.
“Silly kid!” he thought. “In that flimsy suit and those fool shoes!”