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Updated: June 1, 2025

"Next door," said a spectacled young person of seventeen or eighteen, with an impatient indication of the direction. In the adjacent apartment Ann Veronica found a middle-aged woman with a tired face under the tired hat she wore, sitting at a desk opening letters while a dusky, untidy girl of eight-or nine-and-twenty hammered industriously at a typewriter.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Ann Veronica, a modern love story