I should marry that woman instead, he had thought.I should marry that woman instead, he had thought. As the music ended, Lucy and Wilbur left the floor, thirsty as all get-out. "Fred!!! Some more o'that grape juice y'got for Lucy n' me!" Wilbur called once within eyeshot of the bar. Fred, a large, genial man queried, "The good stuff or the _good_ stuff?" as he pulled two martini glasses from behind the bar. "I want the _good_ stuff, Fred," Lucy Hall had replied. Wilbur looked at his date, a regular spitfire of a woman. She was a little more slender than Ellen, but just as pretty in her own way. Like Ellen, Lucy had taken a liking to Wilbur, but Lucy had one advantage: her father was W. Creston Hall, founder and owner of Hall's Department Store. The additional social (and financial) stature was not lost on Wilbur's parents, especially his father. |