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Helen is a modern woman - a scientist who never wants to marry. It
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HELEN: (mischievously) Ah, that wonderful night! The night we discovered the Hamilton antitoxin, the night that made the Baker Institute famous! And, just think, I had a hand in it, Lucy, a hand in the unwomanly work of saving children's lives! But, of course, an old-fashioned spinster would have blushed and said: "Excuse me, Doctor Hamilton, but we must now let a year's work go to waste because you are a man and I am a woman, and it's dark outdoors!" ... That's the way to preserve true chivalry.
Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry, Public Domain, 1917, pp. 20.
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