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“Such a load of flowers came from there for me the other night, with a card that only said ‘from an admirer.’ I liked just those three words. They were so different from the usual name and address and ‘will you sup with me tonight?’ ”
“Do they always put it that way?”
“Oh, of course not always. You needn’t write this, but I don’t mind telling you that since I’ve been in Chicago I’ve had six proposals from men I’ve never seen.”
“Of marriage?”
“That’s what I mean.”
“Do you think they’re serious proposals? Do you think the writers realize all they are pledging?” I unsmilingly inquired.
And unsmilingly she answered: “Oh, yes, they’re perfectly serious and perfectly conscious of the responsibility. Why, one’s from a young clerk who gets only twenty-five a week and frankly tells me so; but his plans and ambitions are on quite a different scale. And I rather admire him for his honesty and his decency; he’s not a bit like the men who — you know — have very different ideas about a girl on the stage. Thank God, I’ve never had to have an ‘angel’! What I am I owe only to myself — and to my mother, oh, to my mother most of all, for she gave up for my career Society friends, everything.”
“Your mother’s here with you?”
“Just outside in the lobby waiting for me,” she answered literally.
Whereupon I felt that we must “work,” as Mr. Loewe’s actors say, “fast.”
“You’ve mentioned ‘backers’ and ‘angels,’ Miss