Human Story-teller. Chloë backed him up valiantly, quite without effect. The interviewers praised her gowns and her scheme of house decoration and wrote in their papers that her hair was Titian red, which it wasn't. They said how impossible it would have been for Dunkle to write his book had his wife not been by his side to cheer him and strengthen him with her wonderful and beautiful belief in his work.
You might think that the friends of Dunkle and Chloë would be less incredulous. Not a bit of it. They simply told Dunkle and Chloë that it might be a clever enough try-on at a get-out, but that it wouldn't wash with them. "Trixie" was muck, they said, and Dunkle ought to be ashamed of himself. If he had to lower himself to write a novel, he might at least have written something decent by which they
