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expiring, Mr Nobley, to see what char bit of fun you will come up with this time

You must, of course, outdo yourself, or e have to talk about next year?" He bowed, polite but by noservant and shall

have no other object than to seek your amusement"

"Well, that is neatly settled then" Aunt Saffronia was all grin "What a breath of

fresh air you are, Miss Heartwright! You must visit the house every day, as often as you

like"

Jane glanced at Miss Char, who in the past half hour had withered like a

carrot forgotten in the back of the refrigerator She was hunched in the sofa, glaring at her

e her foot around, around, around

Boyfriend 2

Rudy Tier, AGE FIFTEEN

Rudy was hil-ar-i-ous and so fine Wherever he went in school, crowds scooped back, for with ready s back out of fear?

After four months of school dances, mall movies, and afterhoan to suffer for lack of afresh subject Without warning, the heat of his hu out, and suddenly she lickson the lawn "Lappedweeks that followed, Jane read Pride and Prejudice for the first tih school reunion, three people reue" Good old Rudy was there, sporting an i in the laughs

day 4, continued

THAT EVENING (TO MAKE HERSELF feel better after the eht intrusion), Jane donned her favorite evening gown, pale peach with a flattering V-neck and cap sleeves These last three days, she had been seesawing between giddy headlong rush into fantasyland and existential terror, but sometimes when she slipped into a new dress, the only word that really applied was huzzah

The addition of a fourth woman threrench in the precedence Aunt Saffronia declared she would dine upstairs, and then it was Jane’s turn to say that was nonsense and that she would si room unescorted At the back of the line Like an unwanted puppy Well, she didn’t actually say the part about the puppy She did enter alone, behind Miss Heartwright and Colonel Andrews, but she told herself she did it with style

When the gentle was quick on the draw--"I’ll pout all evening if you don’t, Mr Nobley, and I’entleht, as the guest that day, naturallya new eh the product itself was soonthan the occupation Sir Terumble to himself, was particularly attentive to Jane He stared at her until she was forced to acknowledge him and then topple into his staccato conversation

"Do you shoot much? Mm? Birds? Miss Erstwhile?"

"Uh, no, I don’t hunt"