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forget and forgive, I'd still be expecting what she promised me. I have forgiven her but I must not have forgotten or I wouldn't be writing about it now. Do you think?
While I was still going to the Convent to school and was still going to Mrs. Summers to spend the weekend, Frank her son, real tall and strong wasn't hurt with good looks but so kind and jolly you liked his company. So on Saturday nights they'd have a dance just a short distance, I'd say six or eight blocks from Mrs. Summers and a band that would wake up Bay St. Louis. So Frank would get courage enough to ask my daddy if he could take me to the show and he'd say yes; if you'll bring her back as soon as the show is over. Oh, yes sir, I surely will. They had dances in the Woodman Hall and the picture show was right on the Beach so we'd always stop at the dance hall, there where Frank taught me to one step, two step and do the old time Waltz. Then years later my niece taught me how to do the double step. But anyway when we'd get home I called Mrs. Summers place home. My dad would say daughter was the show good and of course then Frank would chime in by telling him all about it, because he had already seen it. Every time I go to Bay St. Louis I see that old W.O.W. Hall and its just the same as it was seventy four years ago. One Sunday afternoon all of us were sitting around at Mrs. Summers and Maurice said Pearl, if I get a piano will you play for us? and I said where are you going to get one? But he never answered but he and Frank went out the door and over to a large two story building and in a few minutes here they came down those stairs bumpittebumpet and e to bang bang and had to bring the piano up a small hill, but they got it in and I played the piano and Maurice played or picked the guitar so Sarah had a wonderful soprano voice so she and Frank sang soprano and I sang Alto and so we made a noise for a while. Maurice had all the latest sheet music. Then it was time for my father to take me back to the school so I bid them all good by as it would be another month before I'd get out again.
The (nuns) sisters used to take us girls out walking some afternoons down along the Beach, down to the depot, several other routs and sometimes to Devils Elbow. There was an old colored woman by the name of LePraw, Plorine LePraw, she was French and she sold Pralines for a living so when we'd be walking on the sidewalk here'd come old LePraw with a basket on here arm with Pralines so the girls would say Pearl if you'll hide
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