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ropes that drew up bales of hay from below. The room had a 16-foot ceiling and a wood burning fireplace. A hallway connected it with two smaller rooms in the rear. It was perfect. My large ram's head loom was shipped from California. It filled about half the drawing room. Later, I took a smaller room on the ground floor and installed two more looms. I was enchanted with the arrangement.

But it was not enchanting to commute between New York and Washington twice a week. Kay Coonley always took a plane. Pat would not permit me to do that and since I dislike flying anyway I agreed when he said, "You always have a stack of papers to work on, so take the train." Every Sunday night I boarded the sleeper train to New York and returned to Washington on Thursday evenings or, with luck, Wednesday. The part-time wife.