[Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston]@TWC D-Link bookMary Minds Her Business CHAPTER XXI 9/12
What's the use of having things if you can't enjoy them ?" She thought that over. "There is so much that I have always wanted to see," he continued, "but I've had sense enough to wait until I found the right girl--so we could go and see it together.
Switzerland--and the Nile--and Japan--and the Riviera, with 'its skies for ever blue.' Any place we liked, we could stay till we were tired of it.
And a house in New York--and an island in the St.Lawrence--or down near Palm Beach.
There's nothing we couldn't do--nothing we couldn't have--" "But don't you think--" hesitated Mary and then stopped, timid of breaking the spell which was stealing over her. "Don't I think what, dear ?" "Oh, I don't know--but you see so many married people, who seem to have lost interest in each other--nice people, too.
You see them at North East Harbor--Boston--everywhere--and somehow they are bored at each other's company.
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