Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said.""All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it.""But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.
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About Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was a 19th-century English novelist, translator and christian writer. Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Read more on Wikipedia →

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