The lady of blameless life was; • taking a flat—in itself a departure 'from the Mid-Victorian traditions. And the previous occupants had not • exactly, the caretaker heedlessly ■ hinted, lived in the odour of canc-' tity. A shudder ran through the' blameless lady as she faintly exclaimed : ‘"You say—they—were—, i not —married'” And the caretaker' ! came back to discretion. “Oh, but, ; mum, I can assure you, really, the j place has been thoroughly disin- • Ifected.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 72, 7 March 1911, Page 7
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