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Miss Pamela Pounce, having inadvertently marred a most desirable alliance and incidentally assisted a mad elopement, told herself that it was a sad, tiresome world in which love brought trouble to high and low, and that the best thing a woman of intelligence could do, was to put such stuff out of her head and be grateful that she could work.
"Dear, to be sure," Pamela wondered, "how did people get along at all who hadn't some honest occupation to keep their silly minds off themselves?"