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She had abused Natalie's hospitality. She
was designing. She played bridge for her dress money. She had
ensnared the boy.
And then:
"That settles it, I should think. He ought to leave America. If
you have a single thought for his welfare you'll send him to
England."
"Then you hadn't known about Marion when you proposed that before?"
"No. I knew he was not doing well. And I'm anxious. After all,
he's my boy. He is - "
"I know," he supplemented gravely. "He is all you have. But I
still don't understand why he must leave America."
It was not until she had gone up-stairs to her room, leaving him
uneasily pacing the library floor, that he found the solution. Old
Terry Mackenzie and his statement about conscription. Natalie
wanted Graham sent out of the country, so he would be safe. She
would purchase for hint a shameful immunity, if war came. She would
stultify the boy to keep him safe. In that hour of clear vision he
saw how she had always stultified the boy, to keep him safe.


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