`` There 's a man in New York who just worships Aunt Tommy , '' I said . `` He writes her most every day and sends her books and music and elegant presents . I guess she 's pretty fond of him too . She keeps his photograph on her bedroom table and I 've seen her kissing it . '' I stopped there , not because I had said all I had to say , but because Dick 's face scared me -- honest , it did . It had all gone white , like it does in the pulpit sometimes when he is tremendously in earnest , only ten times worse . But all he said was , `` Is your Aunt Bertha engaged to this -- this man ? '' `` Not exactly engaged , '' I said , `` but I guess anybody else who wants to marry her will have to reckon with him . '' Dick got up . `` I think I wo n't wait this evening , '' he said . `` I wish you 'd stay and have a talk with me , '' I said . `` I have n't had a talk with you for ages and I have a million things to tell you . '' Dick smiled as if it hurt him to smile . `` I ca n't tonight , Jacky . Some other time we 'll have a good powwow , old chap . '' He took his hat and went out . Then Jill came flying in to hear all about it . I told her as well as I could , but she was n't satisfied . If Dick took it so quietly , she declared , I could n't have made it strong enough . `` If you had seen Dick 's face , '' I said , `` you would have thought I made it plenty strong .
And I 'd like to know what Aunt Tommy will say XXXXX all this when she finds out . ''
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