[The Titan by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookThe Titan CHAPTER XXIX 22/29
You're afraid I'll go to Mr.Haguenin or Mr.Cochrane or Mr.Platow, or to all three.
Well, you can rest your soul on that score.
I won't.
I'm sick of you and your lies. Stephanie Platow--the thin stick! Cecily Haguenin--the little piece of gum! And Florence Cochrane--she looks like a dead fish!" (Aileen had a genius for characterization at times.) "If it just weren't for the way I acted toward my family in Philadelphia, and the talk it would create, and the injury it would do you financially, I'd act to-morrow.
I'd leave you--that's what I'd do.
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