.."
"Yes, that's what we'll do," she said. "And, well, I'm much obliged to
you for putting me right."
"I made all the trouble in the first place," said Galbraith, with a
rueful sort of grin. "It was up to me to think of something."
And after the elevator she'd escorted him to had carried him down, she
stood there in the hallway smiling, with the glow of a quite new
friendliness for him warming her heart.
It was natural, of course, that the relation between them after that day
should not prove quite so simple and manageable a thing as it had looked
that morning. There were breathless days when the storm visibly hung in
the sky; there were strained, stiff, self-conscious moments of rigidly
enforced politeness. Things got said despite his resolute repression
that had, as resolutely, to be ignored.
But in the intervals of these failures there emerged, and endured
unbroken for longer periods, the new thing they sought--genuine
friendliness, partnership.
It was just after Christmas that Abe Shuman took her away from him and
put her to work exclusively on costumes.
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