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I thought so. [Another long pause.] I’ve been trying to figure out how to make things easiest for Tony. It upset me a good deal. Doctors get shocked more often than you’d think. And a girl like Amy, too. I didn’t know what to do. I guess it’s up to you.

Poor old Tony!

You might have thought of him sooner—and of Amy, too, for that matter.

It wasn’t on purpose. It was only once! But—honest to God, we wouldn’t either of us have put anything like that over on old Tony. Not for a million dollars!

You couldn’t have wasted much time about it.

It was the first night.

Good Lord!