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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"Dangerous Days"

It seemed a trifle low, but you know I always like your
clothes." He was almost pathetically anxious to make up to her for
that moment's disloyalty in the library.
"There!" she said, brushing the papers aside. "Now we're getting
at it. Was I anything like as low as Audrey Valentine? Of course
not! Her back - You just drive me to despair, Clay. Nothing I do
pleases you. The very tone of that secretary of yours to-day, when
I told her about that over-draft - it was positively insulting!"
"I don't like overdrafts," he said, without any irritation. "When
you want extra amounts you have only to let me know."
"You are always finding fault with me," she complained. "It's
either money, or my clothes, or Graham, or something." Her eyes
filled. She looked young and absurdly childish. But a talk he had
had with the rector was still in his mind. It was while they were
still at the table, and Nolan had been attacking the British
government.
"We get out of this world largely what we put into it," he had said.


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