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1  "Good night," called Miss Baker from the stairs.
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2  "I talked with Miss Baker," I said after a moment.
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3  "Things went from bad to worse," suggested Miss Baker.
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4  Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning.
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5  Miss Baker had mentioned him at dinner, and that would do for an introduction.
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6  "We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.
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7  "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
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8  A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
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9  She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors."
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10  Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
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11  I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.
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12  Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
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13  At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.
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14  Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.
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