I've Married Marjorie

The sun shone, that morning, and even from a city office window the Spring wind could be felt, sweet and keen and heady, making you feel that you wanted to be out in it, laughin...

She did not realize that her tone was very much that of a patient addressing a dentist. Francis's arms dropped, and he looked at her, all the light going out of his face, and sh...

What he did was to eat his scallops à la King with appetite, fraternize cheerfully with Lucille's friend, whose name was Tommy Burke, and who was an old acquaintance of his, spe...

"Almost everything. But you don't know the road to Canada. I thought we'd take it straight through in the car, but to-night we will be in more civilized parts--in an hour or so,...

Marjorie froze in consternation. She had forgotten to allow for Francis's gusts of anger; indeed, there had been no need, for since his one flare-up over the telephone he had be...

They had gone through what seemed to Marjorie's city-bred eyes a dense forest, but which Francis had assured her was only a belt of woodland--quite negligible. And they had come...

"I see what you mean," she said. "I wasn't sporting in the first place--I wouldn't live up to my bargain. That's made you more apt to believe that I've been acting the same way...

"Oh, I've met you before," said Marjorie politely to the man who had opened it. She had danced with him the night before, and it was pleasant to find that she had not to deal en...

The two on the balcony moved a little away from each other. Then Marjorie, coloring for no reason whatsoever, stepped down the toy stairs that wound like a doll's-house staircas...

"Why, yes. I've read of remittance men all my life, but I never dreamed I'd meet one. And--I always wanted to know, Francis," said she, as she opened the door and walked in and...

"Yes," said Francis with a concentrated fury that reached even her confused senses. "But I never will again! I thought--I was beginning to think--you were the sort of woman you...

Marjorie waited, with a quietness which was only outward, for Francis. She did not even know whether he would come; she had only seen him once; he had said he was sorry for the...