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"There is so else, Natalie"

She had relaxed like a kitten in her big chair, and was lighting one of

the sarets she affected

"About Graham?"

"It affects Graham It affects us all"

"Yes?"

He hesitated To talk to Natalie about businessit to its

most elemental form

"Have you ever thought that this war of ours ht about this war at all It's too absurd A lot of

politicians?" She shrugged her shoulders

"It reat deal of money"

"'Well, the country is rich, isn't it?"

"The country? That et to ht We'll be taxed, so we'll cut down on the country house--go

on I can say it before you do But don't say we'll have to do without

the greenhouses, because we can't"

"We reenhouses"

His tone hed a little

"Poor old Clay," she said, with the caressing tone she used when she