J. C. did not spend much time with girls but work- ed hard at sports as his dad wished.

One year, when he was about twelve, his mother told him that, during the summer vacation, a brother of hers and his wife and daughter would be visiting them. J. C. did not take much interest in what his mother was saying but suddenly perked up when she said that the daughter was about his age. Like J. C., she was an only child. "Does she like games?" he wanted to know. "I have no idea, his mother replied but adding that when last she saw her brother, Marian was only five; "pretty as a picture and always dressed so neatly." J. C. gave no further thought to the forth- coming visit. He carried on at school and played games with the other boys.

Finally school was out and the visit was in the off- ing. The day came when his dad asked if he would like to go with his mother and him to meet the relat- ives at the station. J. C. didn't mind going and so they drove down to the depot. After a short wait, the train came in and then his mother was hugging her brother, then her sister-in-law and then Marian. The next thing J. C. knew he was being embraced by his aunt and had his hand pumped vigorously by his uncle, but he was rather unnerved when his cousin spoke to him and brushed his cheek with her lips!

In a kind of daze he piled into the car and found himself sitting in the front with his dad driving and Marian between him and his dad. A faint perfume touched his senses and he found it very much to his liking. Marian said little but now and then would turn to him with a warm smile. J. C. Senior maintained a rather one-sided, rather grandiloquent conversation.

When they got home, J. C.'s mother suggested that he help carry the bags upstairs. The house was spacious and Marian would have a small room to her- self. After taking up his aunt's and uncle's bags, he took two attractive-looking suitcases upto Marian's room. He showed her the way. J. C. had never both- ered very much about the upper part of his home and was rather surprised to find her room very daintily and

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