Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"Caught you at it!" he reproved gaily. "Secret tippling. The gravest
of symptoms. Little I thought, the day I stood up with you, that the
wife I was marrying was doomed to fill an alcoholic's grave."


Before she could retort, a young man strolled in whom she and Dick
greeted as Mr. Winters, and who also must have a cocktail. Dick tried
to believe that it was not relief he sensed in Paula's manner as she
greeted the newcomer. He had never seen her quite so cordial to him
before, although often enough she had met him. At any rate, there
would be three at lunch.

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