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crazy, John! Crazy!
“Just say it’s the going on, the seeking, that matters,” he had implored her.
...But she must know, even in a housekeeper’s way, how it takes time to establish an idea. It would take four or five years for his to get into order, so it would march — “like a little army.”
“Four or five years is a long time to wait in New York. You are crazy, John! Crazy! puttering there in the laboratory with Miss Mapes.” Her eyes had gone all over him. Not a wife’s eyes at all. They estimated him. He held no value for them.
ex Nathalie Sedgwick Colby. Black Stream (1927) : 17-18 : link
same (U Virginia) copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
Lewis Cronenberger, “Nathalie Colby’s New Novel Is a Caustic Social Study,” in The New York Times (September 11, 1927) : link (paywall; *)
