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She customarily talked,
not to him, but to his reflection over her shoulder, when, indeed,
she took her eyes from herself.
"I wonder," she said, fussing with a shoulder-strap, "who Audrey
will marry if anything happens to Chris?"
She saw his face and raised her eyebrows.
"You needn't scowl like that. He's quite as likely as not never
to come back, isn't he? And Audrey didn't care a pin for him."
"We're talking rather lightly of a very terrible thing, aren't we?"
"Oh, you're not," she retorted. "You think just the same things as
I do, but you're not so open about them. That's all"


CHAPTER XI
Graham was engaged. He hardly knew himself how it had come about.
His affair with Marion had been, up to the very moment of his
blurted - out "I want you," as light-hearted as that of any of the
assorted young couples who flirted and kissed behind the closed
doors of that popular house.
The crowd which frequented the Hayden home was gay, tolerant and
occasionally nasty.


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