Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

IS YOUR -...THEN TRY "ROUND-THE-CLOCK WASH-OFF • PERMANENT DARKENER . FOR LASHES AND BROWS (for the hairs to which applied) The Love Story of Pat and Dick (Continued from page 21) Later that night, the lawyer showed up at her door. He handed Pat a package. "If I were rich." he said, "I'd have bought you another collie . . . But since I only had six dollars on me. this was the best I could do." Pat opened the package. Inside was a small woodcut, of a dog. a collie. With it was a note which read: "May I have the pleasure of being your new friend?" Pat knew now that this man. "this sweet, wonderful fellow," was the man for her. As only a woman can. she got him to propose officially to her later that night. And when he did she said, breathlessly, as if surprised and delighted. "Why yes!" There was only one slight hitch, the lawyer told her then. "My mother's a little worried about your having a 'Hollywood' background. It won't make any difference for us either way. But I'd like you to meet her and show her what you're really like . . . Okay?" he asked. "Oh boy," said Pat. HANNAH NIXON SAT ALONE with Pat in the Nixon parlor that next afternoon. They sat next to one another on a small couch. On a table in front of them were two cups of tea and an aging scrapbook. "I know my Richard must be in love with you," said Mrs. Nixon, beginning, her voice very matter-of-fact, her eyes never once off Pat. "In the past whenever he came back from other dates he talked not of romance but about such things as what might have happened to the world if Persia had conquered the Greeks, or what might have happened if Plato had never lived . . . But after his dates with you. Miss Ryan, well, he talked only of you." There was something about the way she'd said you that caused Pat to move a little, uncomfortably, in her seat. "Now," Mrs. Nixon went on. "since you're going to marry Richard. I guess there's a lot you'll want to know about him . . . First of all, let's see; yes. there's food to be discussed. Most foods don't interest Richard, you know. But there are two things he likes. One is cherry pie. One is rump roast beef ... Do you know how to prepare them, Miss Ryan? Pie and rump roast?" "Yes," said Pat, "I do." "Hmmmm," said Mrs. Nixon. "Now — about clothes. I'm afraid you're going to have to do a lot of Richard's chopping. If his brother Donald needs a new suit. Richard will buy it. But if Richard needs one. he'll get me to buy it. or do without it . . . That's a job you'll be having to take over, Miss Ryan. Will you mind that?" "Oh no, not at all." said Pat. "You'll find, too." Mrs. Nixon went on, "that Richard is a hard worker. But work for him has not been connected with making money. I have never heard him express a desire to be a financial success . . . Does that matter to you, Miss Ryan, if your husband is not a financial success?" "It would have a few years ago, when I was younger, sillier." said Pat. "It doesn't any more." Mrs. Nixon smiled, a tiny bit. Then she said, "I hear you're an orphan." "Yes," said Pat. "I'm sorry," said Mrs. Nixon. " — Your mother passed on first?" "Yes," said Pat. "When I was a young girl. Her heart gave way." "And your father?" "He died just as I was finishing up high school. He had silicosis. I tried to nurse him as well as I could. But — " "BUT WHILE THEY LIVED." Pat said, "they were very happy. I'm glad for that. I thank God for that." Again Mrs. Nixon smiled, a little. Then she reached forward and picked up the scrapbook in front of her. She turned a few pages. "This," she said then, pointing to a photograph, "is Richard, right after birth." Pat grinned. "He was adorable." she said. "A very well-formed baby. I thought." said Mrs. Nixon. "And this," she said then, "is Richard at nine months, the time he said his first word. -It was 'bird.' He was referring to a white horse of ours named Bird." "Dick's told me about him." said Pat. "And this," she said then, "is Richard at ten. the time he said to us he wanted to be a lawyer when he grew up. We thought he would be a musician, he had such a good ear on the piano: or maybe even a preacher, he could talk so well. But he said "lawyer' one day. and I could see he had a sense of justice about him. "You see." she said, "we had a store at the time and we found that one of the customers had been shoplifting. Everybody thought that I should turn the woman over to the police. But Richard said 'Don't do it. Mother. If they arrest that woman, it will ruin the lives of her two children.' I followed Richard's advice. And I've never been sorry I did." When she was through talking, she saw Pat kiss her own fingers and then bring them down, softly, onto the photograph. "What made you do that?" Mrs. Nixon asked. "I don't know," Pat shrugged. "I guess it's that up till now I loved the man . . . But now I love the boy that he used to be. too." "Well — " said Hannah Nixon. 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