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Updated: May 12, 2025

And now that the strain was over and she found herself once more in her brougham, driving homeward with the familiar clip-clop of the fat old carriage-horse's hoofs in her ears, she shrank back against the cushions marvelling at the temerity which had swept her into the Wielitzska's presence and endowed her with words that cut like a two-edged sword. Like a two-edged sword in very truth!

Margaret Pedler - The Lamp of Fate