"Complete Stories" - DP

Note to editors: at least have the heart to spell out "Complete Stories" of whom, ok?

Dorothy Parker wrote about joyless people who 'smiled carefully'. I can't help but think that modern entertainment like TV & blogs would have helped them some.

• She had an admirable memory, and often as she had related the story, she never dropped a word of it. Even now, in the late summer, she could hardly tell it for laughing.
• But he would have to disappear from the office, too, that was certain. It would spoil everything to turn up there again.
  
• Indeed, she had felt the satisfaction of the correct, in their courtship, for she had always heard that true love was inarticulate.
  
• "Aren't you really?" he said, politely surprised. "I like pie pretty well-some kinds of pie." <> "Do you?" The polite surprise was hers now.
  

Nice little touches:
__ Mrs. Coles laughed also, three or four bars.
__ She smoothed the piano-cover ingratiatingly.
__ addicted to sentiment
__ immovably married