THE MATCH-MAKER.
, (By PHILLJPPA KENDRICK.) “I have just taken a big responsibil ity on myself,” said Eve. “Whose destiny have you been arranging now?” I asked. For Eve is a persistent matchmaker. .Beneath her hospitable roof many mutually magnetic sparks have been kindled. “You know Daphne Earle? —and that nice man. Jack Carstairs?” ‘'Eve! . . . Why. Daphne's a highbrow; an out-and-out literary creature who reads Browning with her breakfast and sleeps with a, volume of Shelley under her pillow. And Jack Carstairs is the typical engineer; as practical and matter-of-fact as they make ’em.” •Precisely. And he is also loyal, de- [ voted, steadfast, and profoundly in
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17182, 27 October 1923, Page 9 (Supplement)
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