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It was a very formal, extremely tall and reticent
Clayton Spencer who greeted Audrey that night.
Afterward he remembered that Audrey was not quite her usual
frivolous self that evening. But perhaps that was only in
retrospect, in view of what he learned later. She was very daringly
dressed, as usual, wearing a very low gown and a long chain and
ear-rings of black opals, and as usual all the men in the room were
grouped around her.
"Thank heaven for one dignified man," she exclaimed, looking up at
him. "Clayton, you do give tone to my parties."
It was not until they went in to dinner that he missed Chris. He
heard Audrey giving his excuses.
"He's been called out of town," she said. "Clay, you're to have
his place. And the flowers are low, so I can look across and
admire you."
There were a dozen guests, and things moved rapidly. Audrey's
dinners were always hilarious. And Audrey herself, Clayton perceived
from his place of vantage, was flirting almost riotously with the man
on her left.


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