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When he walked into their living-room Vestal was in fluffy negligee and was knitting, no usual domesticity for her. "I'm afraid you've caught me. I've been making a scarf for you, but I didn't get it done in time for Christmas, drat it, so I'm finishing it up for New Year's and-- What is it? Neil! Why are you standing there? Oh! Neil! No! It hasn't come out?"
-"Rod Aldwick made such an attack on Negroes that I had to tell them--publicly--I'm one. Sounds curious to say 'I'm a Negro'!"