Word: clune
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should turn up but Garry Clune, Leda's girlhood love. Clune has made a fortune, is married, but far from settled down. The memory of Leda has tormented him for years. He invites her and Blount out to his Virginia estate, and Leda, against her better judgment, but for the sake of Blount's possible advantage, accepts. Advantages soon follow. De Long, a friend of dune's, takes an interest in Blount's glass works, an interest in Blount's wife. He introduces her to Judith Webster. Washington's star socialite, whose husband...
...things are not so simple for the others. Clune's wife, Kathy, with whom Leda makes great friends, is half crazy with unsatisfied love of him; but he wants only Leda. Failing to get her he sets off to the War with suicidal intent. To hold him back, for Kathy as well as for herself, Leda gives herself to him, but he goes to War just the same. When she bears a child Blount, who is impotent, thinks it is his. Leda does not undeceive him. He has grown more & more powerful, more & more self-assured during Wartime politics...