But it was for this | that she had done all that she had done, it was for this that she had been born. Laura and Iris hadbecome pariahs. Show her how Hunter Woods is coming along. Why would she come back here? he pursued aloud.
But for the past months she had grittedher teeth and performed only routine clerical assignments. Through Iris's connivance, Laura was invited to attend a house party atan Aiken, South Carolina plantation, where Congressman Ian Macmillanwas to be among the guests. She managed an air offaint amusement. When the messenger had gone, Igraine, turning to cross the courtyard, had stopped, a shadow falling across her in full sunlight, stricken with causeless fear.
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