Green Anna Katharine. The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
PROBLEM I. THE GOLDEN SLIPPER
PROBLEM II. THE SECOND BULLET
PROBLEM III. AN INTANGIBLE CLUE
PROBLEM IV. THE GROTTO SPECTRE
PROBLEM V. THE DREAMING LADY
PROBLEM VI. THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS
PROBLEM VII. THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK
PROBLEM VIII. MISSING: PAGE THIRTEEN
PROBLEM IX. VIOLET’S OWN
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“No. No.”
“She’s a most unhappy woman. Husband and child both taken from her in a moment; and now, all means of living as well, unless some happy thought of yours—some inspiration of your genius—shows us a way of re-establishing her claims to the policy voided by this cry of suicide.”
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“Why did you keep something back? When you saw the unfavourable impression made by your reticence, why did you not speak up and frankly tell your story?”
“Because I was ashamed. Because I thought it would hurt me more to speak than to keep silent. I do not think so now; but I did then—and so made my great mistake. You must remember not only the awful shock of my double loss, but the sense of guilt accompanying it; for my husband and I had quarreled that night, quarreled bitterly—that was why I had run away into another room and not because I was feeling ill and impatient of the baby’s fretful cries.”
