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 keep up. He doesn't care if I sprain my ankles in these high shoes, she grumbled to herself. He only thinks about himself.

"This is the best part of the afternoon, just before twilight. It's a dry snow too, looks as though it would keep up. The first snowfall is always wonderful. Those aspens are late falling, they're the color of your hair."

So he did remember she was there, not that it mattered any more!

"I guess they are," she said, "but I'm not mad about yellow. The only blondes I like are the girls in Marie Laurencin's paintings. Those grey clouds are the plumey way she paints too, especially over there where you can just make out pale pink and lavender, and then that tiny Paris-green patch of grass. I often thought a costume like those girls wear would be attractive. Pastel chiffons, draped, almost Greek with an enormous plumed bonnet, and the pearls, and of course the green somewhere."

"It would become you."

"Poison green?"

"Paris green."

"I haven't black button eyes."

"So much the better, and you could use black eye makeup."

She caught up and gaped at him astonished. "Would it be a good idea for a number for the recital?"

"I don't know how good it is."

"It's just what I want. I don't know why I never thought of it myself!"

"You would have—you actually did."

"Well—I'll have to find some romantic music. I love Schubert's 'Serenade' and the Brahms waltzes."

"I'd think something later—and French," he said.

"Like what?"

"Perhaps Debussy's Dances, 'Sacred and Profane.' Hal would probably like to play them for you."

"Imagine you being the one to give me just what I've been looking for!" she exclaimed.

There was such happiness in her voice that he felt embarrassed because of his indifference to this project. He was not however indifferent to her. He did a mental calculation of his financial resources. Fifty-five cents! Not even enough to pay her taxi to wherever she was going, to say nothing of dinner. Get it over fast then.

"Didn't you say you were cold? The snow's really coming down. You'd better let me get you to a taxi." He quickened his step. Rh