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"They will have to help to support me, won't they?"

And he had felt a trifle chilled

It was not a part of Marion's program to enter the Spencer family

unwelcomed She had a furtive fear of Clayton Spencer, the fear of the

indirect for the direct, of the designing woman for the essentially

simple and open male It was not on her cards to marry Graham and to try

to live on his salary

So for a feeeks the engagement was concealed even from Mrs

Hayden, and Graham, who had received some stock from his father on

his twenty-first birthday, secretly sold a few shares and bought the

engage With that Marion breather easier It was absolute

evidence

Her methods were the methods of her kind and her ti won him to keep him uncertain and

uneasy, was her perfectly simple creed So she reduced love to its

cheapest terms, passion and jealousy, played on them both, and made

Grahae there, lounging about with the manner of a

habitue It see over Rodney