[The Avalanche by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Avalanche CHAPTER VIII 2/23
Polly Roberts had come into the most notorious of them at eleven, chaperoning a party, which included Aileen Lawton, a girl as restless and avid of excitement as herself.
Rex Roberts and several other young men had been in attendance, and Polly had begged Ruyler to stay on and let his wife see something of "real life." "This is one of the sights of the world, you know," she said, puffing her cigarette smoke into his face.
"It's _too_ middle-class to be shocked, and not to see occasionally what you really cannot get anywhere else. Why, there'll even be a lot of tourists here later on, and these dancers don't do the real Apache until about one.
At least leave Helene with me, if you care more for bed than fun." But Ruyler had merely laughed and taken his wife home.
Helene had made no protest; on the contrary had put her arm through his in the car and her head on his shoulder, vowing she was worn out, and glad to go home. It was only afterward that it occurred to him that she had clung to him that night. Spaulding entered the library without taking off his hat, and chewing a toothpick vigorously.
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