Radio and television mirror (Nov 1939-Apr 1940)

Second Husband (Continued from page 15) agreed with everything I had to sayalong these lines when I was trying to make Grant understand. And she offered to go with Grant in my place. I've just watched them leave in the big car . . . watched them from my window while I hid behind the curtain like a jealous wife. And that's exactly what I am! For when I saw Grant help Mimi into the car I felt deserted, pushed aside. And now I'm torturing myself with mental pictures of the two of them arriving at the party ... of people raising their eyebrows and asking each other if the fact that Mimi is with Grant means there is a rift in the Cummings household already! Saturday, April 17th . . . SOMETIMES the harder you try to have things right the more complicated and dangerous they become . . . Last night when the children and I were having our little dinner party Kenneth Stevens dropped in. The children like Kenneth and he seemed pleased to accept their invitation to remain. I didn't want him or the children to suspect that I was put out about Mimi and Grant so I tried to be very gay indeed. After dinner — when all I could think about was Grant and Mimi together — I turned on the radio and suggested we have a dance. Most of the time I danced with Dick and Kenneth danced with Fran. It was out of courtesy I danced with Kenneth once or twice. And it was while I was dancing with him that Mimi and Grant returned, surprisingly early. Grant's face went dark. And trying to help things I said something about the fun it had been to have Kenneth there, that he was one of the children's favorite people. If Grant's face hadn't alarmed me so I would have known better. "I never knew you liked children, Kenneth," Grant said in icy tones. "I never did — before;" Kenneth was just as disagreeable as Grant. Then Mimi chimed in: "You see, Grant darling, I told you Brenda wouldn't be so lonely. Beauties with red hair never are, you know!" Ben's suspicions may have poisoned my mind but it seemed to me Mimi was gloating. Wednesday, April 21st . . . Grant and I have had a long, heartto-heart talk. We've promised to believe in each other. This won't be easy for Grant. I know that. He's intensely jealous by nature. When he saw Kenneth Stevens dancing with me last Friday night he was ready to knock him down. I saw his fists clench. And I know there are times when he resents the claim the children have on me, when he feels I give them more time than they require. He denies that he ever has been jealous of Dick or Fran but when I reminded him that a house divided against itself couldn't stand he looked so serious and frightened that I knew my thrust had gone home. Tuesday, May 12th . . . Grant has given me the most beautiful diamond bracelet. I'm almost afraid of it, it's worth so much, it's so very grand. He planned to give me an old sapphire brooch that be JANUARY. 1940 longed to his mother instead — and I would have preferred this — but Mimi assured him the bracelet would be better for me, that I'd hardly care for the brooch since I hadn't known his mother. I'm getting a little tired and more than a little suspicious of Mimi's interest in my affairs . . . Dear, sweet Grant — how I love him! He can't do enough for me. And he never wearies of telling me how happy I make him and of how completely he loves me. Reverently, I thank God for that; I would be lost without him. Wednesday, June 1st . . . It looks as if the time had come for Dick and Fran and me to go back to Montana — where we belong! People who pass this great house probably envy those who live in it and think we must be marvelouly happy because we're so rich. Little they know . . . Grant loves me and I worship him. But we're making each other desperate and miserable. And things promise to get worse, not better. Grant just can't keep his promise not to be jealous. Jealousy is like a disease with him. Tuesday I took the children on a picnic. And as we were opening our lunch basket Kenneth Stevens joined us. He had called the house and Mimi had told him where he could find us. (I shouldn't blame her for doing this, I suppose, but I do. I don't believe it was anything she did innocently. She knew it would upset Grant and make trouble between us if Kenneth and I spent an afternoon together!) Grant questioned me about my day at dinner and I knew from his manner that he had been informed about the picnic and about Kenneth. When I explained that Kenneth had caught up with us, Grant flew into a rage. He insists Kenneth is in love with me, that Kenneth admitted this to someone who told him about it. Unless I'm very much mistaken the "Someone" is Mimi Hale. Friday, June 3rd . . . I KNEW Grant's quarrel with me ' about Kenneth Stevens was only the beginning of more and more and more unhappiness . . . for all of us! Yesterday he lunched with Kenneth, my name came into the conversation, he accused Kenneth of being in love with me — told him Mimi had admitted he had confessed this to her — and Kenneth said "Well, you know it now, so what!" Now he and Kenneth are no longer friends. Wednesday, June 15th . . . Kenneth Stevens is out to ruin Grant in business! Friday, June 17th . . . I don't know what I would do without Ben Porter. He takes Dick and Fran to the park, to the movies, for bus rides. Now, more than ever, I must be with Grant. He's frantic with worry. If Dick and Fran were his children it would be different. Then I wouldn't be so fearful they would get on his nerves. As it is I send them away whenever they come knocking on our door. They're healthy little rascals and they can make a fearful racket. I don't want Grant to snap at them. 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