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 Mr. Grey out of the way as long as he could. And at last I said, “But Mrs. Hancock did say she’d send my letters on.” And he said, “Mrs. Hancock hadn’t been here three weeks before she bolted with a bookie from Bray, and after that Hancock mixed his drinks and got careless.” He said they’d found the letters stuffed into the desk.



I thought I oughtn’t. I thought it was against my duty as a wife. But when I got that telegram saying he was wounded, I went upstairs and read them sitting on my bed. Oh, those letters! (She weeps miserably for a moment.) There I am crying again  and my face all red, and Chris coming Do I look awful? Will he see I’ve been crying?

[She rises to inspect herself in the glass.

it'll be all right.

I don’t use it. I never have.

(finding her bag) : Here take mine.

[She takes out her vanity case and hands it to.



[She looks doubtfully at the puff and makes a dab with it at her nose.

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