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1 " She protested she’d rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her. It was too big and it had a fur collar. ‘It sounds rather glamorous,’ he said. ‘That’s as maybe,’ she retorted. ‘It’s too much trouble. You have to paint your face if you wear a fur. It draws attention. "
― Beryl Bainbridge , An Awfully Big Adventure
2 " Rehearsing with Geoffrey would make it easier when the time came for Meredith to claim her. Penetration, from what she had gathered from library books, was inescapably painful unless one had played a lot of tennis or ridden stallions, and she hadn’t done either. "
