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That Neil was going to be a bank-president, but with a salary ten times that of Mr. Prutt, was too obvious for Vestal to talk about it. What interested her was the house that would then dignify their position. Neil was amused by her ambition to buy half of The Hill from Berthold Eisenherz and build the perfect house that every woman wants.
Could he, Neil teased, interest her in a "modern type" house, all windows and plaster, such as he had seen when--oh, well, he'd seen one some place.