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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"Dangerous Days"

He might tell her all about it."
"Possibly. But I think it unlikely Natalie would tell me."
She leaned over and patted his hand impulsively.
"What devils we women are!" she said. "Now and then one of us gets
what she deserves. That's me. And now and then one of us get's
something she doesn't deserve. And that's Natalie. She's
over-indulgent to Graham."
"He is all she has."
"She has you."
Something in her voice made him turn and look at her.
"That ought to be something, you know," she added. And laughed a
little.
"Does Natalie pay his debts?"
"I rather think so."
But that was a subject he could not go on with.
"The fault is mine. I know my business better than I know how to
handle my life, or my family. I don't know why I trouble you with
it all, anyhow. You have enough." He hesitated. "That's not
exactly true, either. I do know. I'm relying on your woman's wit
to help me. I'm wrong somehow."
"About Graham?"
"I have a curious feeling that I am losing him.


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