getting married yet, you'd better stay away from him. He's always looking for a wife and after he goes out with a girl 2 or 3 times, he usually proposes. Don told me this. Don says Ted wants you and I to go out on a double date with them next week".

My grin had faded and changed to a sickly grimace. Lordy, I thought, what have I got myself into?

"I--I can't. I have to go--back home for a few days. Tell on to tell Ted I--I'm engaged already" I added with inspiration.

"Well that's a surprise. Who's the boy?"

"A--a boy back home, We--we're getting married after the war. His name is--uh--Con--Conrad. "

Shortly after getting back on the dance floor Barbara passed by and I touched her am. Leading her to one side, I whispered.

"Barbara I want to go home." "Home already? why?"

"Well, --I--Sally told me that Ted is building up to propose to me and I--I"

"Proposing? To you? Oh---NO!" and she burst out in peals of laughter. I fidgeted in alarm as her loud strident laughter attracted the attention of others near us and I heard someone say.

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"Those two girls must be having a good joke" Surprisingly, though, she did consent to go home and did not force me to see my dilemna through. the next few days, forced to stay around the house, I went on with cleaning the house as before. I did the dusting, sweeping, making beds and general maid work of a hired girl. r. Vickers, by this time on his feet, was constantly looking at me in a puzzled manner every time I encountered him. Une day he ask- ed me if I were sure he did not know me from somewhere else, reiterating that my face was very very familiar. In my spare time I would immerse myself in the reading of magazines or listening to records. Fsychologically I suppose, I began to retrogress somewhat closer to the age I was supposed to be. I acquired many phono- graph records. In what had been the attic, Dora had furnished a room, of which one entire side was taken up