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"But you're worrying
yourself for nothing, mother."
She was quite content then, cheered at once, consulted the jewelled
watch on her dressing table and rang for the maid.
"Heavens, how late it is!" she exclaimed. "Run out now, dear. And,
Graham, tell Buckham to do up a dozen dinner-napkins in paper.
Audrey Valentine has telephoned that she has just got in, and finds
she hasn't enough. If that isn't like her!"


CHAPTER VI
Months afterward, Clayton Spencer, looking back, realized that the
night of the dinner at the Chris Valentines marked the beginning of
a new epoch for him. Yet he never quite understood what it was that
had caused the change. All that was clear was that in retrospect
he always commenced with that evening, when he was trying to trace
his own course through the months that followed, with their various
changes, to the momentous ones of the following Summer.
Everything pertaining to the dinner, save the food, stood out with
odd distinctness. Natalie's silence during the drive, broken only
by his few questions and her brief replies.


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