SECRETS
Reading edition
"Can you keep a secret, Peggy?"
"I can; but it's just my luck to tell things to other girls who can't."
ALICE—"I thought you could keep a secret."
MABEL—"Well, I kept it for a week. Do you think I'm a cold-storage plant?"
JACK—"Did you tell her that what you said was in strict confidence?"
ETHEL—"No; I don't want her to think it was important enough to repeat."
CRAWFORD—"I see that the Ku Klux are going to admit women members."
CRABSHAW—"Why, I thought it was a secret society."
It is said that an ancient Chinese sage who lived in the second century was offered a bribe. His silence being accepted as hesitation, he was assured that he was perfectly safe, as no one knew it. He replied:
"Heaven knows, it. Earth knows it. You know it. I know it. How can you say that no one knows it?"