That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Dept ford: Mrs Dumpster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been—no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dumpster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cede Athelstan.

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