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Excerpt from Latchkey Ladies Hat the serpent really tempted Eve with, Anne Carey said gloomily, was a latchkey. She had been too tired to eat the boiled beef - with plentiful greens - that the Mimosa Club provided for members on Thursday nights. But by the time the hot, burnt coffee was handed round, and she had taken the large cup that Dolly the fat-checked maid had remem bered to bring her - large cup a penny extra - she began to emerge from the physical languor that had kept her silent, and a faint colour came into her face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.