Radio Mirror: The Magazine of Radio Romances (Jan-June 1945)

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I hated myself for listening, and for gloating over all the sly speculations and rumors that spread like brush fire in a town the size of Bentonville. I was confused, I guess. Deep down I wanted more than anything to see Gloria discredited; but on the surface I stubbornly refused to admit this to myself, because in a way it would mean that Roy had failed. And Roy couldn't fail! If he wanted Gloria, if he loved her, then she must be worth his love. She was lonely, that was all, and used to adulation — and Roy was away so much. . . . But I couldn't have deceived myself very successfully, because when it came I was no more shocked than anyone else. It came very quietly, as a matter of fact. Gloria went off for one of her shopping week-ends — and didn't come back. Roy got the "daily help" to come and live at his house, and made some sort of emergency arrangement at his work so that he didn't have to leave town. A week went by; then two; and at the end of the third week, everyone in town knew that Gloria Martin Carter was gone from Bentonville. ROY came and told me about it himself. "I'm going to divorce her," he said. "I'm going to get out of this just as fast as I can." That little selfmocking smile was still on his lips, and I ached with pity for him. Ached, too, with the love that had come sweeping uncontrollably over me as soon as I saw him, but I fought that down. What was the use? It was Gloria who, years ago, had put that eager delight into his eyes, and it was Gloria now who had taken it away and put bitterness there instead. It would always be Gloria who ruled Roy's deepest emotions. "She's hurt you so dreadfully^ hasn't she?" I said softly. "Hurt me?" Roy looked down at me, and suddenly, inexplicably, he put his hands on my shoulders and shook me. "Hurt me! Oh Ronnie, you fool . . . you'll never understand!" I didn't know what to make of that, except that I had been a tactless idiot. Roy wasn't yet ready to talk about it to anyone, not even to me. But sooner or later he would tell me, and maybe telling me would help him. ... I could explain everything but the shaking he had given me. I got into the habit of dropping over to his house often, after that. He seemed to want me there, and there was nobody else to really look after Maureen. I straightened out the child's clothes and kept an eye on Nancy, the maid. Sometimes I had dinner waiting when Roy came home, and we ate it together. Of course there was talk, in Bentonville. But it was kindly talk, this time; I tried to ignore it as I had tried to ignore the talk about Gloria, but I knew that everyone felt that Roy and I were going toward some inevitable conclusion. I felt that too; I wanted it. But there was nothing I could do to hasten it. 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