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Probably Rodney realized it; certainly Natalie
did not. She liked his admiration; she dressed, each day, for
Rodney's unfailing comment on her clothes.
"Clay never notices what I wear," she said, once, plaintively.
So it was Rodney who brought Audrey Valentine out of her seclusion,
and he did it by making her angry. He dropped in to see her between
Christmas and New-years, and made a plea.
"A stable-warming!" she said. "How interesting! And fancy dress!
Are you going to have them come as grooms, or jockeys? If I were
going I'd go as a circus-rider. I used to be able to stand up on a
running horse. Of course you're having horses. What's a stable
without a horse?"
He saw she was laughing at him and was rather resentful.
"I told you I have made it into a studio."
But when he implored her to go, she was obdurate.
"Do go away and let me alone, Rodney," she said at last. "I loathe
fancy-dress parties."
"It won't be a party without you."
"Then don't have it.


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