Ford Madox Ford - A Man Could Stand Up

So Miss Wanostrocht warned her against the deleterious effect of neglected wives upon young, attached virgins! It probably was deleterious. Where would she, Valentine Wannop, have been by now if she had thought that Sylvia Tietjens was really a bad one! Miss Wanostrocht said, as if with sudden anxiety: 'You are going to do what? You propose to do what?' Valentine said:

'Obviously after your conversation with Edith Ethel you won't be so glad to have me here. My moral influence has not been brightened in aspect!' A wave of passionate resentment swept over her.

'Look here,' she said, 'if you think that I am prepared to...

She stopped, however. 'No,' she said, 'I am not going to introduce the housemaid note. But you will probably see that this is irritating.' She added: 'I would have the case of Pettigul One looked into, if I were you. It might become epidemic in a big school like this. And we've no means of knowing where we stand nowadays!'

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