A Return to Youth and Trouble (1916)
Karl Myron, aged forty-five and a model husband for eleven years, is astounded when brought to a sudden realization that he is showing the marks of age, "Why, I am an old man," he tells himself, and straightaway dons a loud suit long discarded. A jaunty hat and a glaring gift tie, never before worn, added to his reckless attempt at youth. Myron didn't come home for dinner that evening but wandered about in the bright lights as completely lost as any model husband should be. He was thirsting for romance and adventure. Then he met Mrs. Wyck, who appropriately was all "lit" up in brilliant attire. The Myrons knew the Wycks, but weren't enthusiastic about them. Mrs. Wyck burned too brightly. Nevertheless, here was adventure for Myron. Mr. Wyck had failed to appear and his wife had the theater tickets. "Would Mr. Myron go with her?" Would he? Easy! He even held her hand all through the show. For a supper after the theater he was compelled to suggest a place; she was so tired of the big cabarets. He did suggest one, an Italian place he used to know, and never saw the cabman wink at the policeman when he gave the directions, for eleven years is a long time and a place deteriorates. The place was raided and Mrs. Wyck fainted. Myron was thoroughly alarmed. In the midst of the confusion he phoned to his wife and told her the truth. Mrs. Wyck, aroused, hastened to the phone and lied glibly to Mrs. Myron. Mr. Myron was at her home, whence Mr. Wyck brought him, she explained. He had had a few cocktails and seemed rather intoxicated. Myron went home and faced his wife and tried to lie to her and uphold the story that he had been told at the Wyck's home. He couldn't lie, so he blurted the confession. Understandingly, she made one of her own. "And besides," she concluded, "Mr. Wyck phoned early in the evening that he had seen you in his seat with his wife and thought it was such a joke he didn't disturb you." What she meant when she said it was, "You can't put anything over on the old girl yet." Myron got her meaning all right.
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