“You say his wife’s a brunette? I thought he married a blonde.”
“He did, but she dyed.”
—Wrinkle.
July Second
A law by which a widow should not burn herself till she had conversed privately with a young man. Since that time not a single woman hath burned herself in Arabia.
—Voltaire.
July Third
To the diplomatic widow, man is simply an open book. She plays upon his weaknesses as upon a harp with a thousand strings.
—Dorothy Dix.