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You'd better be very careful, Joe." She had risen on her elbow now, and by the dim light from the window she could just see her husband's face.
"Because if you're not very good to me--remember that a person whom you yourself consider one of the very best of her kind--told me that I--" She dropped back.

All at once her face was burning.
"Oh, how I loathe all this!" she thought.

"And how silly and untrue! Do you want to know where you and I are different, little Mrs.Grewe?
I'll tell you! I have a baby! And when he grows up he's going to have this same man still for a father! So there! I'm not sure about anything, even God, any more in this town--it's all a whirl! But I've got a baby, and Susette, and for them I'm going to have a real home--keep wide awake, make friends I'll love--and grow and learn and march in parades--and go to the opera in a box--and go to concerts, go abroad, shop in Paris--love my husband--be very gay--make friends, friends--I will, I will--I won't be downed--I'll beat this cat of a city-- "However.

Now I'll go to sleep-.".