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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"Dangerous Days"

"
And when Clayton, calling up with his usual thoughtfulness that
evening, offered Graham as instructor, she refused gratefully but
firmly.
"You're a dear to think of it," she said, "and you're a dear to have
given Daddy the car. But I'm just naturally going to fight it out
in my own way if it takes all winter."
Natalie, gathering her refusal from Clayton's protest, had heaved
a sigh of relief. Not that she objected to Delight Haverford. She
liked her as much as she liked and understood any young girl, which
was very little. But she did not want Graham to marry. To marry
would be to lose him. And again, watching Clayton's handsome head
above his newspaper, she reflected that Graham was all she had.
Nevertheless, Delight received a lesson in driving from Graham, and
that within two days.
On Saturday afternoon, finding the mill getting on his nerves,
Clayton suggested to Graham what might be the last golf of the
autumn and Graham consented cheerfully enough. For one thing, the
offices closed at noon, and Anna Klein had gone.


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