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==Met Husband in Florida==
Wallis Warfield was at the Lyric theater the night a fashionable audience, gathered to see Anna Pavlowa dance, burst into "ahs" and "ohs" as Harry Lehr, believed to be in Paris, strolled down the aisle, creating more of a sensation than the Russian ballerina on the stage.

After the holidays, the social rush died away.  Wallis Warfield and six other girls planned a party to break the dullness.  The invitations issued from the only unconventional note in the hitherto strictly conventional pattern of that debutante year.

The invitations read:<blockquote>"A hen committee requests the pleasure of your company at a hen dance to be given on the evening of January 8 at 9 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Clark, 1118 North Charles St."</blockquote>

There were other cotillions, other parties.  During the two years, following her debut, Wallis Warfield spent almost as much time in Washington and Philadelphia as she did in Baltimore.  She went to Annapolis to football games and dances.  Each year she attended the annual ball given by Major General Barnett and Mrs. Barnett at their country estate, Wakefield Manor, near Washington.  Mrs. Barnett was Wallis' mother's cousin.  Sometimes Wallis went to parties given by another cousin of her mother, Mrs. Alexander Brown of Baltimore, whose daughter married T. Suffern Tailer.

Other girls who "came out" in 1914 announced engagements, sent out invitations for their weddings.  Wallis remained "Miss Warfield."

And then, early in 1916, she went to Florida to visit Mrs. Henry Musteyn whose husband was in the naval service at Pensacola.  There Wallis Warfield met Lieut. Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr., of Chicago, handsome, indeed, in the uniform of a naval aviator.

Wholeheartedly, ecstatically Wallis fell in love!

<blockquote>Next: Marriage and divorce &mdash; another chapter in the life of Wallis Warfield, Baltimore girl who became "the most talked-of woman in the world."