Chapter 1: Dreadful Ones.

To Scarlet, Ruth

How often did you respond to my repeated requests that you regularly update my daughter on the misfortunes and Have you ever responded.

"No, my friend, I will never comply with your request until I am no longer in danger of experiencing such dreadful ones?" in response to life's adventures?

Surely this moment has come. You are 55 today. If there is ever a moment in life when a woman may be claimed to be safe from the tenacious persistence of unsatisfactory lovers and stubborn fathers, it is undoubtedly during this period. Ruth.

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