[His Second Wife by Ernest Poole]@TWC D-Link bookHis Second Wife CHAPTER XXVIII 5/13
I have met a nerve specialist lately--and the stories he has told me about women in this town! "However! I want to make myself clear.
Am I a high-brow? Not at all. I want good clothes--I love to shop--and I propose to go on shopping. If you do not, let me tell you, my dears, that the men in New York are like all the rest--and you would soon be leading a very lonely existence! And I don't want that, I want bushels of friends--and some of them men--decidedly! I want to dance and dine about--but I don't want to be religious about it! Nor frantic and get myself into a state! "Well, but I did start out like that.
When I came here to live--" She hesitated.
"No, I'd better scratch that out." "Thank Heaven I got married," she wrote, "and fell in love with my husband." Again she stopped with a quick frown.
"And I had a baby.
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