Note 40 — Chapter Twenty-four
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... growing up, as she did, in a generation of girls to whom handiwork was practically an obsolete art, loving gayety, filled with a social instinct and with a brilliant gift for popularity, Dora, in a curious way, was not quite of her time. She rode horseback and crocheted all the edgings for her underwear. She won the local golf-championship the year her piccalilli took first prize at the State Fair. Never in his married life did Dave wear a shirt or a tie that was not personally selected by her.