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"You run after the men for
their titles--they've very little else, except debts, poor things--and
what is the result? The first result is that though you have bought them
you belong to them. Yes, your husband owns his beautiful woman, just as
he owns his beautiful horse or his beautiful dog."
This was so pointed that I felt my face growing crimson, but Alma and
the other women only laughed, so the Countess went on:
"What then? Once in a blue moon each goes his and her own way without
sin. You agree to a sort of partnership for mutual advantage in which
you live together in chastity under the same roof. What a life! What an
ice-house!"
Again the other women laughed, but I felt myself blushing deeply.
"But in the majority of cases it is quite otherwise. The business
purpose served, each is open to other emotions. The man becomes
unfaithful, and the woman, if she has any spirit, pays him out tit for
tat--and why shouldn't she?"
After that I could bear no more, and before I knew what I was saying I
blurted out:
"But I find that wrong and wicked.


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