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I'd
be pretty much of a total loss. Yet I'll want to do something."
And when she sat, very silent, looking into the fire: "You see,
you think it absurd yourself."
"Hardly absurd," she roused herself to look up at him. "If it is,
it's the sort of splendid absurdity I am proud of. I was wondering
what Natalie would say."
"I don't believe it lies between a man and his wife. It's between
him and his God."
He was rather ashamed of that, however, and soon after he went away.


CHAPTER XIX
Natalie Spencer was finding life full of interest that winter. Now
and then she read the headings in the newspapers, not because she
was really interested, but that she might say, at the dinner-party
which was to her the proper end of a perfect day:
"What do you think of Turkey declaring her independence?"
Or:
"I see we have taken the Etoile Wood."
Clayton had overheard her more than once, and had marveled at the
dexterity with which, these leaders thrown out, she was able to
avoid committing herself further.


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