“All on the instalment plan.” Thane stopped for a moment to look about him. Then he added cheerfully: “And I have to admit that Connie is a swell housewife. Not a flick of dirt anywhere. But just wait till you see this—” He opened a door at the other side of the kitchen and Fredericka gasped because they seemed to be looking out on to an open ledge of rock. The whole long living room hung over a cliff that dropped away sharply beneath them, and the side of the room opposite them was one great window. The woods came down to the left and right but the trees had been cut away from the cliff’s edge in front to give a clear view of the soft sunset sky, the sleepy town lying just below them, and, beyond it, the green valley with its wide river reflecting the pink glow of the sky.
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