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Graham knocked out his pipe, took a final sweeping survey of the strange room which was the last word in comfort, pressed off the lights, and found himself between cool sheets in the wakeful dark. Again he heard Paula Forrest laugh; again he sensed her in terms of silver and steel and strength; again, against the dark, he saw that inimitable knee-lift of her gown.
The sight of her, in her fawn-colored silk corduroy, tormented him with a rush of visions of that form of hers swimming Mountain Lad, swan- diving through forty feet of air, moving down the long room in the dull-blue dress of medieval fashion with the maddening knee-lift of the clinging draperies. "A penny for them," she interrupted his visioning. His answer was prompt.
"And that Auber was before Offenbach. And as for Wagner, ask him, just ask him " And she slipped away, leaving Graham to his fate. He watched her, watched the perfect knee-lift of her draperies as she crossed to Mrs. Mason and set about arranging bridge quartets, while dimly he could hear Terrence beginning: "It is agreed that music was the basis of inspiration of all the arts of the Greeks...."
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