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honeyarden?"

"Of course I didn't want to copy it exactly It was old and out of

condition But there were a lot of old-fashioned flowers---However, if

you intend to build an Italian villa, naturally--"

"I don't intend to build anything, or to plant anything" Her voice

was frozen "You go ahead Do it in your oay And then you can live

there, if you like I won't"

Which hat he carried aith hireatly disturbed by her threat to keep her hands off He knew

quite well, indeed, that the afternoon would find her, with Rodney Page,

picking her way in her high-heeled shoes over the waste that was some

day to bloo to the

for But in five

minutes he had put the incident out of his ave

her happiness and occupation, certainly she needed both And his powers

of inhibition were strong For many years he had walled up the small

frictions of his married life and its disappointments, and outside that

wall had built up an existence of his ohich was the mill