Lovers All Untrue Part II

Ellen is not taken with Jean De Brissac, or Johnny as people tend to call him. She thinks that he is rather presumptuous in having flirted with a genteel girl like Angela. She worries at the thought that her sister is so admiring of him. SInce Mr Draper has allowed the girls to go to the society Johnny goes as well and on the way home he and Marion take to walking together and kissing. THen Mrs Draper is rearranging rooms in the house because her faithful old cook Ada cannot manage the stairs as she used to. Mrs Draper suggests that Marion takes a small bedroom by the kitchens, while Ada and Betty, the maids, take a bedroom on the lower floors. THIs give Marion a chance to open the front door and let Johnny in. Before long he is visiting her and they make love. He has been trying to find a girl in England whose father is well to do, and who would be willing to accept him as a son in law. Since Marion has no brothers, he hopes that if he could make her fall in love with him, they could persuade Mr Draper to let them marry and he would become heir to the business. Marion is in love with him, but she having had such a restricted life, is content with their meeting and making love, and she tells him that she does not believe that Mr Draper would ever let them marry. She tells him that her father is very possessive and would never want his girls to get married. Johnny wonders if he has wasted his time seducing another girl who cannot become his wife and his solution to poverty. It is almost summer and Marion then finds that she is pregnant. She tries to persuade Johnny to go to London with her and marry, and they could have the baby there. He is furious, as he knows they will be poor and if she is a young wife with a baby, there's no way that she could work. He wants her to tell her father, and he beleives that any normal man would prefer his daughter to marry than to end up with a baby. marion is not so sure. She and Ellen and the parents go on holiday to the Seaside and Johnny goes on a day trip, hoping to find some way of getting to talk to Mr Draper. Marion goes bathing, and on an impulse, tries to drown herself. Johnny and the Bathing woman rescue her and bring her back to their lodgings and she finds that she has had an early miscarriage, freeing her from the trap of pregnancy.