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When he finally located her his voice over the wire startled her

"Good heavens, Clay," she said "Are you angry about anything?"

"Of course not I just wanted to--I aood-by That's all"

"Oh!" She waited

"Have you had a pleasant afternoon?"

"Aren't you going to see o?"

"I don't think so"

"Don't you want to knohat I aton?"

"That's fairly clear, isn't it?"

"You are being rather cruel, Clay"

He hesitated He was amazed at his own attitude Then, "Will you dine

withfor you"

But when he saw her, his sense of discoether was natural enough It was not even faintly clandestine

But the new restraint he put on himself made him reserved and unhappy

He could not act a part And after a ti him On the surface he talked, but underneath

it he saw her unhappiness, and her understanding of his

"I' back, too," she said "I ca for the untrained woo hoht to be able to learn to do that