The Song Is You
A Novel
1949
The Petty Girl
The whistle isn't jaunty, not Doris Day. It's low and slow and the actor Bob Cummings would remember its hot zing for some time.
Ah yes, that bit player of definite note.
"You sound happy," he says to her, his head half turned, leaning back in his springy dressing-room chair so he can catch a glimpse of her in the corridor.
She stops, swivels her hips, and looks back at him, black eyes crackling.
"I am," she says, almost a husky coo. She laces her long, red-tipped fingers along the door frame. "I have a new romance."
"Is it serious?" he says, flirting hard. Has he played this game with her before? He lets his arms dangle boyishly from the sides of his chair.
"Not really," she replies, tilting her head. Then, with a ... read full excerpt from The Song Is You: A Novel ebook
