It is true that Flora
was beautiful and rich, but--well, there was something queer about her.
She was simply crazy to get married, and if a man danced with her as
many as three times in an evening she literally seized upon him and
tried to drag him to the altar.... Her eagerness and her intensity
repelled every man who was in the least attracted to her, and I think
she was beginning to be frightened to death that she wouldn't get
married at all, when she happened to meet Tracey, who had just got a job
as salesman in her father's business. She began to rush him--there's no
other word for it--and none of the other girls minded a bit, because,
without Flora, Tracey would have been the perfect male wallflower. They
became engaged almost right away, and were married six months or so
later. All the girls freely prophesied that even Tracey, flattered by
her passion for him as he so evidently was, would get tired of it, but
he didn't, and there were three marriages in 'the crowd' that June."
"Three?" Dundee repeated absently, for his interest was waning.
"Yes.... Lois Morrow and Peter Dunlap; Johnny Drake and Carolyn Swann;
and Tracey and Flora," Penny answered. "Although I was thirteen then and
really too old for the role, I had the fun of being flower girl for Lois
and Flora both.
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