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For the first ti to think of Clayton as a man, rather

than a father

Not that all of this was coherently thought out It was a series of

i development and of his own

uneasiness

He wondered, too, about Rodney Page He seemed to be always around,

underfoot, suave, fastidious, bowing Natalie out of the rooain He had deplored the war until he found his attitude

unfashionable, and then he began, with great enthusiaseants for Red Cross funds, and even to raceful

and artificial, patterned on his best after-dinner manner

Graha to keep hi hate However, late

in April, he posed in one of the pageants, rather ungraciously, in

a khaki uniforht Haverford was to be the nurse bending over his prostrate figure

He turned rather savage

"Rotten nonsense," he said to her, "when they stood waiting to be posed

"Oh, I don't know They're rather pretty"

"Pretty! Do you suppose I want it be pretty?"

"Well, I do," said Delight, calmly