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72.<br />
ELLIE<br />
Then what more do you want! Oh,<br />
Susy, if you’d only follow my<br />
example!<br />
SUSY<br />
Your example?<br />
Susy paused, weighed the word, was struck by something<br />
embarrassed, arch yet half-apologetic in her friend’s<br />
expression.<br />
SUSY (cont’d)<br />
Your example? Why, Ellie, what on<br />
earth do you mean? Not that you’re<br />
going to part from poor Nelson?<br />
Mrs. Vanderlyn met her reproachful gaze with a crystalline<br />
glance.<br />
ELLIE<br />
I don’t want to, heaven knows-poor<br />
dear Nelson! I assure you I simply<br />
hate it. He’s always such an angel<br />
to Clarissa. And then we’re used to<br />
each other. But what in the world<br />
am I to do? Algie’s so rich, so<br />
appallingly rich, that I have to be<br />
perpetually on the watch to keep<br />
other women away from him-and it’s<br />
too exhausting.<br />
Algie?<br />
SUSY<br />
Mrs. Vanderlyn’s lovely eyebrows rose.<br />
ELLIE<br />
Algie: Algie Bockheimer. Didn’t you<br />
know, I think he said you’ve dined<br />
with his parents. Nobody else in<br />
the world is as rich as the<br />
Bockheimers; and Algie’s their only<br />
child. Yes, it was with him. With<br />
him I was so dreadfully happy last<br />
spring. and now I’m in mortal<br />
terror of losing him. And I do<br />
assure you there’s no other way of<br />
keeping them, when they’re as<br />
hideously rich as that!
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