Excerpt from Linda Lee, Incorporated: A Novel "Mrs. Bellamy Druce Rather a mouthful, that." "Is that why you make a face over it?" "Didn't expect me to relish it, did you, Cinda?" "I'm afraid I wasn't thinking of you at all, Dobbin, when I took it." "Meaning, if you had been, you might have thought twice before taking?" "No fear: I was much too madly in love with Bel." "Was?" "Dobbin " "Sorry - didn't mean to be impertinent." "I don't believe you. Still, I'm so fond of you, I'll forgive you - this once." "Won't have to twice. I only - well, naturally, I wanted to know whether or not it had taken." "Taken?" "Your matrimonial inoculation." "I think one may safely say it has. I've grown so old and wise in marriage, it really seems funny to remember I was ever an innocent." "Four years -" "Going on five." "It's seemed a long time to me, too, Cinda - five years since these eyes were last made glad by the sight of you." 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.