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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: Haven't you found that?"
"I have never," said the doctor, known what you call an
openly bad woman,--at least, at all intimately. . . . "
Sir Richmond looked with quick curiosity at his companion.
"You have avoided them!"
"They don't attract me."
"They repel you?"
"For me," said the doctor, "for any friendliness, a woman
must be modest. . . . My habits of thought are old-fashioned,
I suppose, but the mere suggestion about a woman that there
were no barriers, no reservation, that in any fashion she
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