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Which ht of the high head when she got out of

her car and crept up the rectory steps How could she even have cared?

How could she? That was his life, those were the people he chose to play

with She had a sense of loss, rather than injury

The rector, tapping at her door a little later, received the answer to

his note through a very narrow crack, and went away feeling that the way

of the wicked is indeed hard

Clayton had been watching with growing concern Grahaay crowd that revolved around Marion Hayden It wasthan wicked; but its

influence was bad, and he knew it

But he was very busy At night he was too tired to confront the

inevitable wrangle with Natalie that any protest about Graham always

evoked, and he was anxious not to disturb the new rapprochement with the

boy by direct criticism

The middle of December, which found the construction work at the new

plant well advanced, saw the social season definitely on, also, and he

found hi to dinners and then on to balls

There were fewer private dances than in previous Winters, but society

had taken up various war activities and reat charity balls