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"And I believe I have got a new henchman. But I see my wife beckoning to me. I must have a word with her before she flits away. May I be excused?" He made a courteous gesture of apology; then smiled at Eve. She looked after him as he moved away. "I sometimes wonder what I should do if anything were to happen to the Fraides," she said, a little wistfully.
In the mean time it was Fraide's difficult position to wait and watch and yet preserve his dignity. It was early in the afternoon of March 29th that Loder, in response to a long-standing invitation, lunched quietly with the Fraides.
The delightful atmosphere of the Fraides' home life had always been a wonder and an enigma to him; but on this day he seemed to grasp its meaning by a new light, as he watched Eve soften under its influence and felt himself drawn imperceptibly from the position of a speculative outsider to that of an intimate.
Loder was keenly uncomfortable, but he could think of nothing to say. "It seemed to begin that night I dined with the Fraides," she went on. "Mr. Fraide talked so wisely and so kindly about many things. He recalled all we had hoped for in you; and and he blamed me a little." She paused and laid her cup aside.
"No," he said, honestly and without embellishment. The curtness of the answer might have displeased another woman. Eve seemed to take no offence. "I had a talk with the Fraides to-day," she said "A long talk. Mr. Fraide said great things of you things I wouldn't have believed from anybody but Mr. Fraide." She altered her position and looked from Loder's face back into the fire.
Unlike Greening, she took the new manner without surprise. She had known Chilcote for six years. "I dined with the Fraides to-night," she said. "Mr. Fraide sent you a message." Unconsciously Loder smiled. There was humor in the thought of a message to him from the great Fraide. To hide his amusement he wheeled one of the big lounge-chairs forward. "Indeed," he said. "Won't you sit down?"
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