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Indeed it would have taken a good
deal of ingenuity to construct one. It was safer, anyway, just to go on
looking incredulous.
There was silence for a minute or two, then Violet burst out again. "And
then, after all Freddy had done, for Rose to come back here to Chicago,
with all the other cities in the country where it wouldn't matter what
she did, and start to be, of all things, a chorus-girl! It's just
a"--she hesitated over the word, and then used it with an inflection
that gave it its full literal meaning--"just a _dirty_ trick. And poor
Freddy, when she knows ...!"
"I don't believe a word of it," said John Williamson. "I don't believe
Doris Dane--if that's her name--is Rose, in the first place. And I don't
believe Rose has had a quarrel with Rodney. But if she has, and if she's
really there in that show ... Well, I know Rose--not so well as I'd have
liked to, but pretty well--and I know she's a fine girl and I know she's
square. And if I ever saw a girl in love with her husband, she was.


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