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They have the softest colors, dead rose, and
faded blue, and old copper tones."
"I'm very glad you're pleased."
She was in high good humor when they started. Clayton, trying to
meet her conversational demands found himself wondering if the
significance of what was to happen in Washington that night had
struck home to her. If it had, and she could still be cheerful,
then it was because she had forced a promise from Graham.
He made his decision then; to force her to release the boy from any
promise; to allow him his own choice. But he felt with increasing
anxiety that some of Natalie's weakness of character had descended
to Graham, that in him, as in Natalie, perhaps obstinacy was what
he hoped was strength. He wondered listening to her, what it would
be to have beside him that night some strong and quiet woman, to
whom he could carry his problems, his perplexities. Some one to
sit, hand in his, and set him right as such a woman could, on many
things.
And for a moment, he pictured Audrey.


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