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And now that she had so arranged it that Susan would avoid him , everything would turn out as she wished . `` I 'll use Arthur to make him jealous after a while -- and then -- I 'll have things my own way . '' As she fell asleep she was selecting the rooms Sam and she would occupy in the big Wright mansion -- `` when we 're not in the East or in Europe . '' RUTH had forgotten to close her shutters , so toward seven o'clock the light which had been beating against her eyelids for three hours succeeded in lifting them . She stretched herself and yawned noisily . Susan appeared in the connecting doorway . `` Are you awake ? ''