Mrs. Mei: Well, Wen Tuli, how is the dress? Is it all right?
"Wen Tub: (Abruptly) I didnt go to try the dress, mother.
Mrs. Mei: (Secing that something is wrong) No? Tt doesn't matter. Anotier day will be just as well Til go with you to-morrow and we'll decide on the veil also.
Wen Yoong: And I too. Ig it as pretty as the dress Norma Shearer wore in the movie we saw last week?
Wen Ling: (Who has been staring gt the fre, deep in thought) Mother, 'BMrs." Mel: (Understanding) Girls, do you know that the plan for the new. house" has come? Father pouring over it but he wants you to help with the interior planning of 1t. He can't decide whether the: living Foam should be pink or green.
Wen: Yoong: Green, of cours Wen Ling: No, pink is ever much prettier, "Mrs." Mel: He also wants you to plan your own rooms.
Wen Yoong: Oh, how delightful! want a green room—green with gold Ares. I nave it all" planned. I'm going to tell him about it (She oes.)
"Wen Ling: Waitl I'm going, too. (She follows.)
Mrs. Mei: Well, my dear?
Wen Tub: Morner,.promise that you will help me. You must.
Mrs. Mel: (Troubled and anxious) Certainly, my dear, but what is it?
Wen uh: T don't want to marry Li Fel, Don't you see I can't marry him? "We have nothing in common, don't know. what to talk about when Tm with him. Why, mother, don't even know him, He's ike stranger. Mother, won't you help me? Say that you will.
Mrs. Mel: I have done all 1 could. T hinted as much to your father but he would not hear of it. He's very conservative in his ideas of marriage. He said—Oh, Wen Tuli, you must obey him, Wen Tuli: What did he say?
Mrs. Mei: Tt was nothing, merely threat, He didn't mean it Wen Tuli: (Extremely What did father say?
Mrs. Mel: Well, he said that if you break the marriage, he'll disown you, that you'd be like one dead to us al Wen Tuli: (Paling) Oh, mother, an idle threat you, But Tam afraid he he set his heart on it and. will be very angry you go against him.
Wen Tuli: Yes, he will be angry. 1 spoke to him about it and he would not listen, How hard he is when he opposed. Yet, while fearing his anger, I will not marry Li Fei be-
Because you're in love with someone else?
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