Kay, just freshly back from Europe, paid him a typical Sagittarian complement. “About your drinking,” she began, and he smiled, waiting. “I hear you’ve been trying to stay on the wagon.” Trying? After twelve months without a single drop? Trying? As he recovered his composure, she went on. “Say, you know there’s a party tomorrow night for Joe’s book? I though I ought to warn you, but I never get to see you alone.” Warn him? Warn him about what? The publisher forgot his chagrin under this new threat. She continued: but we were all hoping that you wouldn’t spoil the party.” By now, the publisher was speechless. Not Sagittarius.

“What I mean is, we hope you don’t mess up the evening by being a wet blanket about not drinking – and all that. Joe likes his martinis, and after all, his book is a Literary Guild selection. If you slink around like some fugitive from prohibition and make everybody miserable, just because you have this terrible disease, it will throw a damper on the whole thing. Say, can people catch it from being in the same room with you?”

The publisher somehow managed to stammer that she was safe, then gathered his injured dignity together long enough to remind her that he had hosted parties himself for authors like Edna Ferber and Ernest Hemingway without mishap. “I have always been told,” he said evenly, between clenched teeth, “that my manners are impeccable.” The Sagittarian, blind to her boss’s near apoplexy, heartily agreed with him. “That’s for sure. You’re a fabulous host. No one in the publishing business can figure it out.” The publisher had just barely enough breath left to ask, Figure what out? The archer’s answer zinged home. “How is it that you can be such a great host and such a perfectly lousy guest? Your own parties are marvelous, but you always pull such big boo-boos every time you go to somebody else’s whing-ding. It’s really weird.”

Then she noticed something else weird. Her boss’s face. It was turning purple. Suddenly contrite, the friendly Sagittarian immediately apologized.

>> Kay, just freshly back from Europe, paid him a typical Sagittarian complement. “About your drinking,” she began, and he smiled, waiting. “I hear you’ve been trying to stay on the wagon.” Trying? <<

“Gee, I hope I didn’t say the wrong thing. It won’t matter how you behave anyway. Joe thinks you’re really swell.

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