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Maude and I might have been happy together. She was not the kind you couldn't be candid with. She used to say she admired honesty and sincerity above all other traits. And she was deeply interested in me, which was natural enough, as I had no reservations, no reticences from her. I believed that when you cared about a girl it was wrong to have secrets from her.
And that was her policy, too, though now and then she carried it too far. One day I telephoned her and asked her what she had been doing that morning.