Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . The Crossways BY BETH BRADFORD GILCHRIST. HE had always won-dered how it would gowith her at a crisis,whether she would infact be as quiet of mindas in fancy it seemedeasy to be. Now, asthe train shot her nearer The Crossways,she felt a sick distaste for the days inprospect. This shrinking was naturalenough, Linda assured herself, a touch ofnervousness inseparable from the occa-sion. However disguised by cordiality,it is an ordeal for a mans fiancee toenter for the first time the door of hismothers house. That very fact, Linda re
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . The Crossways BY BETH BRADFORD GILCHRIST. HE had always won-dered how it would gowith her at a crisis,whether she would infact be as quiet of mindas in fancy it seemedeasy to be. Now, asthe train shot her nearer The Crossways,she felt a sick distaste for the days inprospect. This shrinking was naturalenough, Linda assured herself, a touch ofnervousness inseparable from the occa-sion. However disguised by cordiality,it is an ordeal for a mans fiancee toenter for the first time the door of hismothers house. That very fact, Linda reasoned, oughtto help you through, if you had anyqualifications at all. The family wouldexpect you to be nervous, might, indeed,take it slightly amiss if you werent ner-vous, as if to be quite at ease shouldargue to their supersensitive conscious-ness a flaw in that nice feeling in-separable from the event. She was gladto be able to furnish at least one of theproper emotions. No, the family wasnegligible from that point of view. Ofcourse, too, she had foreseen the she foreseen everything e
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