“When I say ‘parent,’ I mean the person in that relationship to girls—my girls. It is stupid of me, because, of course, there are” (her voice paused on a higher note) “other parents.”
Colonel Hewson’s face remained rather blank, and he put his hand on an iron ring suspended from the roof. Alice Joyce the while had stationed herself beside a trapeze bar. Colonel Hewson in a lady’s gymnasium was not the most valiant man in the world, but he now took heart of grace and proposed marriage to Alice Joyce.
The end of the story is perhaps best told in the words of the heroine—
“Of course I said ‘No’ to him. Really men are very tiresome. Fancy a man’s proposing when you’re showing him the gymnasium!”
CRUSHED
(To be continued.)
