MEETING AT A PARTY

Evening Star, Issue 21736, 2 June 1934, Page 11

MEETING AT A PARTY

JUNE AND FORMER HUSBAND RECONCILIATION DENIED. There were rumours in both stag® and society circles in London recently that June and her former husband Lord Inverclyde had become reconciled. They had met at a party, and had danced together . . . . , In an interview with the ‘ Sunday, Chronicle ’ June ’denied, that any reconciliation could be expected. She said { “It was quite by accident that we met. We happened to go to the same party.! Instead of avoiding one another we danced and chatted like civilised people. The meeting was certainly not prearranged by out host. It was a moment of tense embarrassment for everyone present and it was the only thing one could do ... . to talk and appear ai though nothing had happened; “By a coincidence I met Lord Inverclyde at another party at the same house a few, nights ' later. Again we chatted. If and when we meet again we shall behave . like two rational human beings.”' Juno said that this was the first time they had spoken to one, another for four year. “ The experience,” she said, “was a curious one for both of us. It is ironic when a woman has loved and then gone through the weary business of divorce; to. meet one’s former husband at a party—and to have to wear a mask to hide one’s emotions, knowing that people are watching and wondering, however much they may try to keep up a pretence otherwise. And yet it was the only thing one could do. “Both of us felt awkward and so did the people who were, there, I do not like to be melodramatic in my private lifer" as many women do. They make an exhibition of situations such as that. They parade their sorrows and find a cheap kind of glory about it. I am so tired of it all—all that part of my life and I want to forget' about it. But someone is always reminding me. There are wild rumours because we danced together at that party. “ To-day someone told mb that Lord Inverclyde and I had been * seen ’ together at the Ritz, Grosvenor, Monseigneur and several other places in Lon* don. Of course it'is quite Untrue. “In every woman’s life there comes a time when she wants to be left alone. That is all I seek" now. I avoid cocktail parties—would; run a mile away from one, .1 Just want to/be myself, quite isolated for the time" being. I want to forget—if only people would let me.”