Especially when everybody knows that you've got a skeleton in your cupboard." "Anne didn't, and she was so afraid of skeletons." "All the more reason why you should have hauled the horrid thing out and let her have a good look at it.

She mightn't have been afraid of it then.
Now she's convinced it's a fifty times worse skeleton than it is." "She wouldn't have lived with it in the house, dear.

She said so." "But I thought you never told her ?" "She was talking about somebody else's skeleton, dear." "Oh, somebody else's, that's a very different thing." "She meant--if she'd been the woman.

I was testing her, to see how she'd take it.

Do you think I was very wrong ?" "Well, frankly, dear, I cannot say you were very wise." "I wonder----" She lay back wondering.