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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-23 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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posed to deceive you. I sat in at a tea party today with some of those nurses that soldiers rave about . Quite innocently and unsurspeculating I burst into the house after a walk at the tea time and found three of our bachelor lieutenants entertaining four of the girls in blue. They were in town from a certain base hospital not a thousand miles away to do some shopping and somehow or other they had hooked Lieutenant Mangan and his pals. I'll swear i didn't know how to act. It was the first time I had got into a mixed pantry like that since I became an inconsequential married man. So I seized a cup of tea and a slice of toast and got safely between two of the men and proceeded to be just as unconcerned as I would have been if I had not been already in love and married and everything - which you know well can be some unconcern. It was very pleasant to hear them talk the nothings that folks talk on such occasions simply because they were American girls. (Oh, say can you see -). They were nice girls, too. I know the two of them who smoked the cigarettes Lieutenant Mangan gave them thought they were being reg'lar devils because they didn't do it all easily. I chuckle now at that and my own funny self-consciousness. If you had walked in on the party I should have been as fussed as you were when I discovered you having a party with
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posed to deceive you. I sat in at a tea party today with some of those nurses that soldiers rave about . Quite innocently and unsurspeculating I burst into the house after a walk at the tea time and found three of our bachelor lieutenants entertaining four of the girls in blue. They were in town from a certain base hospital not a thousand miles away to do some shopping and somehow or other they had hooked Lieutenant Mangan and his pals. I'll swear i didn't know how to act. It was the first time I had got into a mixed pantry like that since I became an inconsequential married man. So I seized a cup of tea and a slice of toast and got safely between two of the men and proceeded to be just as unconcerned as I would have been if I had not been already in love and married and everything - which you know well can be some unconcern. It was very pleasant to hear them talk the nothings that folks talk on such occasions simply because they were American girls. (Oh, say can you see -). They were nice girls, too. I know the two of them who smoked the cigarettes Lieutenant Mangan gave them thought they were being reg'lar devils because they didn't do it all easily. I chuckle now at that and my own funny self-consciousness. If you had walked in on the party I should have been as fussed as you were when I discovered you having a party with
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