Chatterbox escorted MacArthur down the hall to the tea room.
The Room as some called it. It was used for only one purpose: Meetings between
two people who had applied for an Arranged Marriage.
MacArthur knew the drill. He had been down this hall before.
Go into the room. Chatterbox locks the door. Sit down and have tea with the
girl. Stand up, kiss her hand, give her your number, take
hers.
After that, you were supposed to meet a few times,
unsupervised in different public places. Then, you were supposed to come up
with a ring. He never had.
They weren’t the girl in the garden. The one who danced
alone in the moonlight.
He w