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Show ias CHAPTER V Deep inside, both Dinah Satterwhite and Harriet Lambert were wary of their new-found friendship, but outside circumstances - - the sting Mrs Satterwhite continued to feel because of her powerlessness in Oji, and somethingjsimilar that, after only a month in residence, had arisen in Harriet herself, kept them returning each other's visits at respectable intervals. For Naka, Harriet discovered, was a disappointment. It wasn't merely the rootlessnass of their lacking a house (Tokyo was slow* mSt the Murakamis' orders had not come through), but she was lonelier than before. The other ladies did not stay home as she did. Childless, most of them, and endowed with servants to take care of even the smallest chore, they went continually - - chiefly/to each other's living rooms, where they bandied gossip, told jokes, and speculated about tha endless intricacies of rank. But they did not include Harriet^, Women never had; she wasn't a woman's woman - - a man's, rather. Other posts, particularly before Otsu, she had found more bearable, for she had been interested in something beyond goesip-with-the-girls or flirtation-with-the-fe&lows. Power. Harriet didn't speak the word, even to herself, but she had a pretty /cja/curate idea both of its nature and |