[An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw]@TWC D-Link bookAn Unsocial Socialist CHAPTER VIII 5/25
He says he knows your husband well; that he treated you very badly, and that you are greatly to be pitied. Can you guess now? He says he has kissed you--for shame, Hetty! Have you guessed yet? He was going to tell me something more when we were interrupted, and I have not seen him since except at a distance.
He is the man with whom you eloped that day when you gave us all such a fright--Mr.Sidney.
I was the first to penetrate his disguise; and that very morning I had taxed him with it, and he had confessed it.
He said then that he was hiding from a woman who was in love with him; and I should not be surprised if it turned out to be true; for he is wonderfully original--in fact what makes me like him is that he is by far the cleverest man I have ever met; and yet he thinks nothing of himself.
I cannot imagine what he sees in me to care for, though he is evidently ensnared by my charms.
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