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A WOMAN of any age from thirty to forty-five who considers that her life has been a failure, and who is on the look-out for some chance, even at that late hour, to make it a success, is a dangerous person to be brought in contact with.
As drowning men clutch at straws, or other possible or impossible saviours, so does such a woman clutch at circumstances. She may wreck a hundred lives, but she will take the risk with perfect indifference. What does it matter to her if a hundred or a thousand fail or go under if she only comes out on top.