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They had no access to lawyers or due process, and some of them went to reformatories for years.
In this installment, I picked a few of the more shocking morality cases that Constance actually faced.
Of course, she solved them brilliantly.
Absent from her possessions were any portraits of her family or mementos of home.
Shed left in such a hurry that she hadnt thought to bring any.
I have a place in a good house and you neednt worry.
It was true about the good house.
Then Fannie said, Alberts good for another pair.
Then Pearl said, Delia, you didnt go with all of them, did you?
And Delia retorted, You couldnt expect me to choose one!
This kind of talk had embarrassed Edna terribly the first time she heard it.
It wasnt that Edna disapproved of their feminine vanity, or their wild ways.
She just couldnt do what they did.
She didnt know how to make herself up and put herself on display.
But Edna hadnt any idea where to begin, and wasnt sure she wanted to.
You remember Frank, dont you?
From the train station?
Pearl leaned in and said, The one with the walking stick filled with whiskey?
Yes, Delia said gleefully.
He asked me to Atlantic City for the weekend.
How am I going to get away?
Im all out of sisters with birthdays.
What about an elderly aunt in a state of decline?
What about inviting me?
Ill be the sister with the birthday!
Or the elderly aunt.
Just take me along.
Excerpted from MISS KOPPS MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS by Amy Stewart.
Copyright 2017 by Amy Stewart.
Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
