[Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookWinsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels CHAPTER VIII 15/25
Mother said that John needed waking up, and so we did all we could to wake him up.
Mother came over to stay with me a good deal, and in the evenings we generally had a little music or a game of cards. About this time another difficulty began to come into my married life, which I suppose I ought to have foreseen--I mean the attentions of other gentlemen.
I have always called forth a great deal of admiration in gentlemen, but I have always done my best to act like a lady and to discourage it in every possible way.
I had been innocent enough to suppose that this would end with married life, and it gave me a dreadful shock to realize that such was not the case.
The first one I noticed was a young man who came to the house, at an hour when John was out, for the purpose, so he said at least, of reading the gas meter.
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