"Was the lieutenant in town then?" I asked.
"No. He had been called away on some law business," she answered.
A caller came in just at this point, so we had no more opportunity to talk together. I feel perfectly sure now that it was Blum who was having such a gay time with that crowd of people. He may have used that law story merely as an excuse to take a holiday. I can't bear to think of that sensitive, lovable girl as his wife!
Dear me, Cecilia, this is a strange, strange world! One would imagine that with experience and the discretion which comes with years, things would straighten themselves out a bit; but the older one grows the queerer life is!
Yours problematically and abstractedly,
M.