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Constance Middleton is a charming and quick-witted woman who is
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Start: Mrs. Culver: I think I’d much better leave you to face your ordeal alone. Constance: Oh no, mother you must stay. I particularly want you. You see, he may be awful, and I may wish I’d never seen him again. It’ll be so much easier if you’re here.
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End: Bernard: All I ask is for your friendship, and if in return I care to give you my love I don’t see that it’s anyone’s business but my own. Constance: I don’t think it is. I think I can be a very good friend, Bernard.
William Somerset Maugham, The Constant Wife, Samuel French Ltd, 1948, pp. 19-24.
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