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He Knew He Was Right

CHAPTER XV
2/11

That's my notion.

And that was everybody's notion a few years ago.

But now, what with divorce bills, and women's rights, and penny papers, and false hair, and married women being just like giggling girls, and giggling girls knowing just as much as married women, when a woman has been married a year or two she begins to think whether she mayn't have more fun for her money by living apart from her husband." "Miss Dorothy says--" "Oh, bother what Miss Dorothy says! Miss Dorothy only knows what it has suited that scamp, her brother, to tell her.

I understand this woman has come away because of a lover; and if that's so, my sister-in-law is very wrong to receive her.

The temptation of the Clock House has been too much for her.


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