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And found Graham's eyes on her, studying her.
"You don't want her. That's plain. But you do want her. That's
not so plain. What's the answer, mother?"
And Natalie, with an irritable feeing that she had bungled somehow,
got up and flung away the cigaret.
"I am trying to give you what you want," she said pettishly. "That's
clear enough, I should think."
"There's no other reason?"
"What other reason could there be?"
Dressing to dine at the Hayden's that night, Graham heard Clayton
come in and go into his dressing-room. He had an impulse to go
over, tie in hand as he was, and put the matter squarely before his
father. The marriage-urge - surely a man would understand that.
Even Anna, and his predicament there. Anything was better than this
constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his
mother.
Had he done so, things would have been different later. But by
continual suggestion a vision of his father as hard, detached,
immovable, had been built up in his mind.


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