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Ash said on the telephone, "No, I thought your wife was very pleasant, last evening--trying her best to be natural with us. You must expect her to take a long time before she accepts Negroes as normal. I've tried to do the same thing for forty years, and I'm still a little bewildered to find that I'm not an American citizen or a father or a chemist but a Negro. And now, forget all that, because something very dangerous is starting."
So Ash gave him the first news of the Sant Tabac.