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from the time she was thirteen Rilla Mabry had been ashamed of her appearance. it was then that she started growing taller than the other girls. she was also awkward as well as tall and she was too thin. "by the time she was twenty she was fully convinced that her appearance was not very good. all of the other girls seemed little and cute and attractive.no matter what Rilla wore it was wrong. she was much too tall to wear tailored clothes. and thin dresses hung around her loosely. all of the girls and boys in the group was Rilla. she was a fine girl, if you could forget the way she looked. even her hair was wrong - rather stringy - but she had a pleasant and attractive face. "in spite of her looks Rilla had a boy friend.he was born patrick redding and his father was a near the store. pat wasn't any great price –but then you couldn't expect Rilla, with her looks to do any better. people feel that Rilla ought to be satisfied. pat was a nice looking boy, and he shouldn't be considered unimportant.
Rilla didn't consider pat unimportant. she was grateful to him for being nice to her.she was as pleasant and as good as she could be. as a matter of fact she liked patrick a lot. it is fun to be with. she would have been perfectly satisfied except for the fact that she was in love with shane Tennant. all of which was her little good, shane was the center of the town. shane's father was a banker - and rich. his mother was the social leader of the town.shane was a much taller than Rilla and handsome to. pat went into the near the business with her father. shane went into the bank. that's the way sons do in small towns unless they have a definite ideals about law or one of the other professions. Rilla didn't do anything. her parents have just enough money so she didn't have to work.she went to parties with patrick and admired for shane from a distance. the towns people felt that she would marry with pat, that he 'd take over his father' s near the store, and that they 'd settle down. - that might have happened if it hadn' t been for leslie during. leslie during was - and still is a well known magazine illustrator. and he came to Morrisville to visit an aunt.and he was taken in and to all of the parties, of course. he was the social lion of the season. he was in town for a few days, but that was long enough for it to happen. "he saw Rilla Mabry. Rilla was standing near the door and she was looking at shane Tennant. she never knew how much her face showed that she was thinking about. no one else noticed but during being knew,understood the situation. i saw Rilla standing not quite straight because she didn't feel quite as tall in that way, in a fitted dress and her hair is very smooth, and he saw shane, and bottles, self confident, good looking. and then pat came to ask Rilla for the dance. on the second day of his visit during for his remarkable statement. he told anyone who would listen.to him that Rilla Mabry was by far the best looking girl in town. one of the best looking girl he 'd ever seen.
Rilla never had a compliment about her looks. she had always been shy, self conscious, and often up about her appearance. and now the first authority in beauty who had ever been in, and claimed that she was the price.
when during.himself told her what he thought of her she was filled with confusion. she had finally to thank him. and later, very shyly, she went up to him.
"i do wish that you would tell me how can look better," she said. "that's not really my particular kind of work," he told her, "but may be if we get together...". they got together in the the next morning. during came to Rilla's house.and with Rilla's mother acting as helper application, did things to Rilla and to Rilla's clothes. during made her stand up straight. and he rearranged her hair. and he told her what was wrong with the clothes she wore. that night there was a dance for during his last night is in town. and, as he had thought when he started things, Rilla was, for the first time in her life, the center of attention.toward the end of the year during at the satisfaction of seeing shane Tennant dancing very attentively with Rilla, shane Tenant; Rilla was looked at with longing eyes - and who had paid any attention to her.
during went back to his home and his work in new york and forgot about the whole thing. years passed. and then, just the other day, this happened:
during was lunching alone at a restaurant in an attractive, tall woman, saw her first youth, came up to him.
"you don 't remember me? "she said." during didn't remember her.
"i am Rilla cycle, i was Rilla Mabry when you knew me. you came to my home town and is rather made my life over. remember now? "
" of course i do, "said during. "i remember very well.it was my one attempt at changing the of the destiny of of another person. "
" you did a great job, "said Rilla. there was a strange note in her voice which he didn't understand.
"you married the girl you were in love with. i see. his name was Tannent wasn 't it? "
" why, yes, "said Rilla. "but how did you remember the name? and how did you know i was in love with him? "
"i am good at remembering names. and i saw you looking at him. Simplicity itself! and to think that i was the cause.
"yes you were," said Rilla. "it was very funny when you look back on it. there i was going with patrick redding, and in love with shane, and just up and awkward. and you came down and said i was a beauty - so now i was a beauty.and the boys all wanted to go out with me. and i married shane. "
" wonderful "said during. and he smiled happily. "how are you getting along, now? "
" that is the difficult part. "said Rilla. "you shouldn't have asked. "
" shane and i got married. and i didn't get along very well, but i was awfully happy in the beginning.the Tennant lost all of their money in a bank failure, and my family had its money in the Tennant bank by that time, so our money went, too. then shane fell in love with a chorus girl. i got a divorce of course. i've been teaching in a girls' school for the past three years. "
" that's too bad! "said during. "but maybe that was better than marrying that other boy whom you didn't love." ""may be," said Rilla. "you can never tell. love goes... patrick redding took his father's near the store and married the cutest girl in town. they have three children and are very happy. and, oh, yes, he was in the harbor and started a chain of near the store. now he is the richest and most important man in town "
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