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allright, just as do the ingredients in a bad stew.

The treachery of it is that she believes she is playing hide & seek for the sake of her husband - (& herself), who (she philosophizes) would "lose interest" if he felt he could "take her for granted". A husband likes mystery in his wife muh as he would like fleas in his bed. Female mystery is like a nightgown; a man can appreciate it only if he has confidence in what's underneath it. In every other sphere but his love life man is constantly beset by dire uncertainties - fortune, change, life & death - do you wonder if in his wife he yearns for a type of personbal security? He wants to take "her for granted" in the sense that he wants her to maintain the attitudes & emotions. "Mysteriousness" rates a very low price, indeed. If a woman