HETTY MARRIED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 198, 4 August 1928, Page 9

HETTY MARRIED

By FLORENCE A. KILPATRICK. (Hutchinson,) This is a sequel to “Wild-Cat Hetty,” who was depicted in the previous story as a lively little creature quite true to her name, and the subject of an experiment by Stephen Tredegar who wished to prove that environment and not heredity is the main determining feature in the formation of character. He happened, however, to prove more than that. He proved that West End and East End, despite all notions to the contrary, could on occasion have an irresistible attraction, the one for the other. In other words, he fell violently in love with Hetty, and even married her. The honeymoon was short, but very happy, only Tredegar is rather a difficult proposition for an original east-ender like Hetty, for he is engaged on writing a hook on psychology. Hetty thinks herself neglected in favour of Tredegar’s good-looking secretary, who helps him in his work. Hetty, indeed, goes so far as to make herself intoxicated at a dinner party in order to insult her husband, and as a last gesture, leaves him to return to her native east-end haunts. The end of the story might have happened .there, but it doesn’t. There is a tragic ending, which is neither satisfactory nor in the least convincing.