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"...The son of a couple who has everything but happiness "doesn't suspect that he constitutes the living chain of flesh and blood and nerves binding two incompatible people together, and that he will have to pay for it." The young girl who resists taking on the trappings of womanhood comments, "To dress up in all that, strut around in it, stumble in the long skirts, mimic the grown-ups and make them laugh where they sat on the garden steps, was fun enough for a while. But it was nothing to base a life on."..."
(E.B., p. 212)