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Miss and Mrs. Janis
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“ ‘ Ask her/
“And Eve did. And she did. Said she’d love it.
“ ‘When can you join?’ I asked her.
“ ‘In an hour — I’ve got a tea. But I can break the tea if an hour’s too long.’
“ ‘What about your folks?’
“ ‘There’s only a sister. I’ll telephone.’
“And she came to rehearsal that night, and stuck, and became and is, like the rest of us, a bum !”
Elsie was in great spirits. And Elsie’s mamma had gone into 24 or 32.
“I don’t want to be a pest,” I told Elsie, “but when are you, or why aren’t you, going to marry!”
“Never!” she said, with more to come — I could feel it, and I held my peace. “I’ve gone this way so long, so far, that I’ve grown a pretty healthy sense of humor. Thanks to that, it doesn’t require marriage to make me laugh or cry at this weird old world. I’ve got a sense of humor, let’s say, but, what’s more, I’ve got the most marvelous companion in the world in my mother.”
“That then’s the answer to your bachelorhood — Mother?”
“Yes; but it must not be unfairly stated. Mother — at least I — have a reputation of being the most carefully chaperoned girl on any stage. You’d think, from what you hear, that mother camps on a stool in the back parlor and asks every youth who tries to hold my hand what his intentions are! Why, do you know who the fellows ask for when the party is a foursome and we need another girl?”
“That exquisite ‘bum,’ Miss Overhault?”
“No; that exquisite ‘bum,’ Mrs. Janis. And when we get out, do you know who it is that has to be quieted