A Jilt's Journal Author:Rita Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I Is Paula a fool ? It is Paula herself who asks that question of herself, three months later. What have these three months held ? More than my journ... more »al could chronicle had I chosen to write down day by day, hour for hour, the lessons that life was teaching. More than I care to say even as I resume my old habit of scribbling. More than I can say even to Lesley, who has come back with me for a week's visit before her marriage. Yes — Lesley is to be married, and I—according to a long-ago promise—am to be one of her bridesmaids. She is making a ' great match,' so Lady Archie told me, but I am sure that she is being coerced into it by some of those invisible forces applied to girls, whose whole duty, according to Society, is to make a brilliant marriage. Lesley's will be a brilliant marriage. Lord Lyn- mouth is one of the ' catches' of many seasons, and has hitherto escaped all the traps of matchmaking mothers and guileless debutantes. Yet he fell a victim to Lesley, and though I appreciate his taste, I abhor him. That is the worst of friendship ! It has to be cut asunder by some knife of disapproval. It is impossible to agree on every point. Certainly impossibleto agree on the choice of the man or woman who first divides it. I know my Lesley, my chum, my school idol will never be to me what she has been, once a husband claims her ; once she takes up that position to which her marriage will entitle her. We had seen a great deal and yet very little of one another in that season I spent in London. A time at which I am now looking back critically, conscious that to write the truth of it will make me seem a somewhat vain, and essentially fickle young person. I wrote no journal there. My days were too crowded, my leisure too rare. There is no doubt that L...« less