Book Excerpt: ...lder.] Rex is just the sort to give the woman he adores everything in the world.JEAN wriggling out of LUCY'S embrace]I am not the woman he adores.LUCYWhy, Jean He's engaged to you.JEANBut he's in love with my sister. You know that as well as I do.LUCY uncomfortably]Oh, well, he was once, but not now. Men admire these independent women, but they don't marry them. Nobody wants to marry a sexless freak with a scientific degree.JEANOh, what's the use, Lucy? He's still wild about Helen, and she still laughs at him. So you and John have trotted out the little sister. Why not be honest about it.LUCYWell, I may be old-fashioned, but I don't think it's nice to talk this way when you're just engaged.JEANHere comes your "sexless freak"--not with a degree, either.LUCY following JEAN'S gaze]With a man JEAN smiling]...
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