style="font-size:15px;"> ‘Very well,’ said John gloomily. ‘We’ll have to live in Hades. And you will grow old telling incredulous women that you got the wrong drawer. Unfortunately your father’s bank-books were consumed with him.’
‘Well, what’s the matter with Hades?’
‘If I come home with a wife at my age my father is just as liable as not to cut me off with a hot coal,[50] as they say down there.’
Jasmine spoke up.
‘I love washing,’ she said quietly. ‘I have always washed my own handkerchiefs. I’ll take in laundry and support you both.’
‘Do they have washwomen in Hades?’ asked Kismine innocently.
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