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42.<br />
What had, indeed, that she could make clear to him? And yet<br />
more than ever she felt the need of having him securely on<br />
her side. Once his word was pledged, he was safe: otherwise<br />
there was no limit to his capacity for willful harmfulness.<br />
SUSY<br />
Look here, Streff, you and I know<br />
that Ellie hasn’t been away for a<br />
cure; and that if poor Clarissa was<br />
sworn to secrecy it was not because<br />
it "worries father" to think that<br />
mother needs to take care of her<br />
health.<br />
She paused, hating herself for the ironic note she had tried<br />
to sound.<br />
Well-?<br />
STREFFY<br />
He questioned, from the depths of the chair into which he<br />
had sunk.<br />
SUSY<br />
Well, Nick doesn’t. Doesn’t dream<br />
of it. If he knew that we owed our<br />
summer here to, to my knowing.<br />
Strefford sat silent.<br />
She felt his astonished stare through the darkness.<br />
Jove!<br />
STREFFY<br />
Susy bent over the balustrade, her heart thumping against<br />
the stone rail.<br />
Strefford sank into another silence, from which he roused<br />
himself only as Susy turned back toward the lighted<br />
threshold.<br />
STREFFY (cont’d)<br />
Well, my dear, we’ll see it through<br />
between us; you and I-and Clarissa.<br />
He said with his rasping laugh, rising to follow her.
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