entomology over at State. But that's Just the point

she's forgotten the importance of a family in her love for all those old bugs of hers."

Tay could have replied at such length. But all she said was "Insects, Mother not bugs!"

Then there was Tay's father. Probably he counted most of all; for her decision might even affect his position as Dean of Men which he'd held at State U for more than 20 years. She lifted both hands, and her fingers like tal ons ran through the rumpled hair. Then she made her hands flat and pushed them heavily across her forehead and back over the punished permanent. "How glad I am," she told herself, "that I asked both Millicent and Don not to phone tonight. I mustn't let either voice influence me in what I have to decide now."

Morning would begin the summer vacation. Don wanted her answer so that he might make plans for an early autumn wedding. "You will go right ahead after we're married, of course," he had told Tay, "and finish your doctorate. I won't mind a bit if my wife has two more years of college than I have."

Tay know that Millicent yearned for an answer too. Not that she wouldn't wait forever; but if only Tay would decide now the two young women might share the summer at Millicent's rustic cabin on Moosehead Lake. Of course, Tay could so easily go with Millicent and explain nothing. Her family would see no more there than ordinary friendship, which needed no explanation. But Tay kne w that what was left of the relationship which was "ordinary" would immediately at Moosehead Lake slip into, and bo assimilated by, this glowing, pulse-racing wonder called love. And she knew that when that happened, Don would stand as much chance as the statue in the park. too honest to go with Millicent under these circumstances. If Millicent proved to be her choice, then both Don and her family must know. And by tomorrow morning.

She was

As soon as breakfast was over, she would explode the H-bomb. Except that in this case, H would not stand for

hydrogen

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