“There’s a certain peculiarity about the status of the two young people in the Gregson circle. Cecilia Warren arrived there when she was sixteen, in 1930; but nothing was done for her socially—Bellfield knew her not. She was put straight into a business college, where she learned stenography and typewriting, and as soon as she was qualified she got a job. She had several jobs, and ended in an architect’s office as a kind of secretary to one of the firm, a young man named Paul Belden. He comes from Amsterdam, New York, and he and Miss Warren have known each other for years—since childhood. They’re now engaged to be married.”
Clara said: “If Cecilia Warren had to earn her living, I don’t think there’s anything so queer about all that. You say Mrs. Gregson didn’t go out much herself.”
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