The Romantic Woman Author:Mary Borden General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: A. A. Knopf Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gener... more »al Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter Three PHYLLIS DAY and Louise Bowers belonged to the " Hot Push," Jim Van Orden, of course, and Tommy Dodge, Sally Comstock, and Gus Brown, and half a dozen others besides my three brothers, Dick, Jerry, and Bud. Phyllis and Louise were my bosom friends. We went to the same school, and during school hours we wrote daily voluminous letters to each other such as sisters might write who had been long separated, and smuggled them across from one desk to another in the covers of textbooks. We met moreover every afternoon as soon after lunch as possible. I remember one day in the butler's pantry that we had a momentous conversation. We were about the same age -- I was twelve. I seem to have rather a vivid idea of what we looked like that day, perhaps because I sat on the sink opposite the square looking-glass where Edward tied his butler's tie. We had on sweaters and tam- o'-shanters, and our long thin legs stuck out from under short woollen skirts. The icebox was open, and we had hauled various eatables out of its depths. We sat with our feet dangling, eating olives, salted almonds, and chocolate cake with a gusto that betokened a perfect confidence in the capacity of our own insides and that of the icebox, that betokened more -- an absolute belief in the great American god who gave little girls joy of their stomachs. The chocolate cake was of an exceedingly rich, damp kind, called Devil's food, a special source of gluttonousjoy to Phyllis, who had been known to eat a whole two- po...« less