"
Audrey was very uncomfortable. She had a guilty feeling that the
whole situation, with Natalie pouring out her woes beside her, was
indelicate, unbearable.
"But if Clay - " she began.
"Clay! He's absolutely ungrateful. He takes me for granted, and
the house for granted. Everything. And if he knows I want a thing,
he disapproves at once. I think sometimes he takes a vicious
pleasure in thwarting me."
But as she did not go on, Audrey said nothing. Natalie had raised
her veil, and from a gold vanity-case was repairing the damages
around her eyes.
"Why don't you find something to do, something to interest you?"
Audrey suggested finally.
But Natalie poured out a list of duties that lasted for the last
three miles of the trip, ending with the new house.
"Even that has ceased to be a satisfaction," she finished. "Clayton
wants to stop work on it, and cut down all the estimates. It's too
awful. First he told me to get anything I liked, and now he says
to cut down to nothing.
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