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felt at all as he did, the vast roo, with

Graham no one knehere, and that travesty of Christo Christ since we had a real tree," he observed "Do you

res on it? And how

Grahas," said Natalie, and watched the second man

critically He was new, and she decided he ard

She chattered through the ayety of hers

which was not gayety at all, and always of the country house

"The dining-room floor is to be oak, with a marble border," she said

"You re is blue and

gold You'll love the ceiling, Clay"

There was claret with the luncheon, and Clayton, raising his glass,

thought of Chris and the water that sias by that tiia, too," she said "Bordered with red geraniuood Rodney wants Japanese screens

and things, but I'm not sure What do you think?"