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The Danger Mark

CHAPTER II
11/29

"I want liberty as much as you do.

If I had any, I'd go to every play and opera in New York.

And I'd go about with my friends and I'd have gowns fitted, and I'd have tea at Sherry's, and I'd shop and go to matinees and to the Exchange, and I'd be elected a member of the Commonwealth Club and play basket-ball there, and swim, and lunch and--and then have another fitting----" "Is that what you'd do with your liberty ?" he sneered.

"Well, I don't wonder old Tappan doesn't give you any money." "I do need money and decent gowns.

I'm sick of the frumpy prunes-and-prisms frocks that Kathleen makes me wear----" Kathleen's troubled laugh interrupted her: "Dearest, I do the best I can on the allowance made you by Mr.Tappan.
His ideas on modern feminine apparel are perhaps not yours or mine." "I should say not!" returned Geraldine angrily.


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