" Then she smiled a little satirically,
for Enid had made a quick movement of recoil which Alice Crofton thought
rather absurd.
"It's early to think of such a thing, no doubt," she said coolly. "But
still, I shall be very much surprised, Enid, if you do not re-make your
life. I myself have a dear young friend, very little older than you are,
who has been married three times. The War has altered the views and
prejudices even of old-fashioned people."
"I want to ask you something," said Enid, "d'you think I ought to tell
people that I have already been married twice?"
Miss Crofton told herself quickly that such questions are always put with
a definite reason, and that she probably would not be called upon to pay
her sister-in-law's allowance for very long.
"I don't think you are in the least bound to tell anyone such a fact
about yourself, unless"--she hesitated,--"you were seriously thinking of
marrying again. In such a case as that I think you would be well advised,
Enid, to tell the man in question the fact before you become obliged to
reveal it to him."
There was a pause, and then Miss Crofton abruptly changed the subject by
saying something which considerably disturbed her young sister-in-law.
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