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AN’S age is of man’s life a thing apart; ’tis woman’s whole existence.” Thus saith the poet and  thus saith I. The three years that Angela  Bish was twenty-three were the happiest in  her life. But as this didn’t happen till she was twenty-nine we can’t tell about it now. For Angie was now much younger than she was at twenty-three. She was only twenty-four.

And still Angie was unwed. She didn’t, in fact, have a single husband. But who wants one that is single, anyway? Other girls had married again and again and again. Angie had never had a nibble to her name.

I see a lady in the rear of the room raising her hand. Why not? you ask. Well, you see, Angie was one of those feverish females who turn into a quivering jelly upon seeing a man, with whipped cream on top. 107