One of Tom’s friends in New York, a painter of miniatures who lives in her parents’ large home on the Upper East Side. Though Tom and Cleo are close and have “taken to each other from the very first night,” there are no sexual or romantic undertones between the two of them.
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Chapter 4
...of his plans either. “The only friend he feels like telling” is a woman named Cleo Dobelle , a painter who lives “in her own suite of rooms” in her parents’ home....
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