It clings and coils
to my head just any old way that looks as if I had spent an hour on it.
That made me able to be ready to go down to Tom in only ten minutes over
the time he gave me.
I stopped on next to the bottom step in the wide old hall and called Tom
to turn out the light for me, as Judy had gone.
I have turned out that light lots of times, but I felt it best to let
Tom see me in a full light when we were alone. It is well I did! At
first it stunned him,--and it is a compliment to any woman to stun Tom
Pollard. But Tom doesn't stay stunned long and I only succeeded in
suppressing him after he had landed two kisses on my shoulder, one on my
hair and one on the back of my neck.
"Molly," he said, standing off and looking at me with shining eyes, "you
are one lovely dream. Your shoulders are flushed velvet, your cheeks are
peaches under cream, your eyes are blue absinthe and your mouth a red
devil. Come on before I get drunk looking at you." I didn't know whether
I liked that or not and turned down the light quickly myself and went to
the gate hurriedly. Tom laughed and behaved himself.
[Illustration: "Molly, you are one lovely dream"]
Everybody in town was up to the hotel and everybody was nice to me,
girls and all.
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