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Show 187 In the meantime /the relationship with Higashi did not escape notice. "Dinah and Harriet?" asked Phyllis. "What's the world coming to?" "'The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,'" quoted Louise, "'the leopard lie down with the kid.'" "Wrong," said Phyllis, "this is hawk with cobra." But there was nothing the Detachments could do, outside the witticisms passed each morning when Harriet's blue Buick, which arrived by rail the first week, pulled past their windows enroute to Higashi. "The Major," Colonel Sattarainite told his wife, "said no." "No." Her lips closed on the syllable like a clam on grit. Sipping her coffee she stared. "Any reason?" Dimly a chuckle sounded in the Colonel's throat. "Several - - all bad." Mrs Satterwhite rose to refill her cup. She lingered a moment at the window, staring at the streaming flag; then her shoulders squared, and returning to the table she sat down and leaned forward, "What we must do," she said, "is invite Curtis, "Good Lord." "I mean it. For a visit." The Colonel's eyes were sarcastic, but she refused to y>ield. "We'll set him to work." "Curtis?" |