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\nhttps://archive.org/details/whateverywomankn0000unse_t2p7  \n7  \n## WHAT EVERY\n\nWOMAN KNOWS  \n\n| THE WORKS OF J.M.BARRIE.  \u003Cbr>NOVELS,STORIES,PLAYS,AND  \u003Cbr>SKETCHES.  \u003Cbr>Uniform Edilios.  \u003Cbr>AULD LICHT IDYLLS.BETTER DEAD  \u003Cbr>WHEN A MAN'S SINCLE.  \u003Cbr>A WINDOW IN THRUMS.AN EDINBURGH  \u003Cbr>ELEVEN.  \u003Cbr>THE LITTLE MINISTER.  \u003Cbr>SENTIMENTAL TOMMY.  \u003Cbr>MY LADY NICOTINE,MARGARET OGLVY.  \u003Cbr>TOMMY AND GRIZEL.  \u003Cbr>THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD.  \u003Cbr>PETER AND WENDY.  \u003Cbr>WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOwS AND  \u003Cbr>OTHER PLAYS.  \u003Cbr>THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON AND OTHER  \u003Cbr>PLAYS.  \u003Cbr>HALF HOURS,DER TAG.  \u003Cbr>ECHOES OF THE WAR.  \u003Cbr>PLAYS.  \u003Cbr>Uniform Ediion.  \u003Cbr>MARY ROSE.  \u003Cbr>DEAR BRUTUS.  \u003Cbr>A KISS FOR CINDERELLA.  \u003Cbr>ALICE SIT-BY-THE-FIRE.  \u003Cbr>WHAT EVERY_WOMAN KNOWs.  \u003Cbr>QUALITY STREET.  \u003Cbr>THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON.  \u003Cbr>ECHOES OF THE WAR.  \u003Cbr>Conaining:The Old Lady Shows Her Medals  \u003Cbr>—The New Word—Barbara's Wedding—A  \u003Cbr>Wel-Remembered Voice.  \u003Cbr>HALF HOURS.  \u003Cbr>Containing:Pantaloon—The Twelve-Pound  \u003Cbr>Look—Rosalind—The Will  \u003Cbr>Others in Preparation.  \u003Cbr>INDIVIDUAL EDITIONS.  \u003Cbr>COURAGE.  \u003Cbr>PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.  \u003Cbr>Iustrated by ARTEUR RACKHAM,  \u003Cbr>PETER AND WENDY.  \u003Cbr>Tllustrated by F.D.BEDEORD.  \u003Cbr>PETER PAN AND WENDY.  \u003Cbr>Illustrated by MIss ATTWELL  \u003Cbr>TOMMY AND.GRIZEL.  \u003Cbr>Illustrated by BERNARD PARTRIDGE.  \u003Cbr>MARGARET OGILVY.  \u003Cbr>For particulars concerning The Thistle  \u003Cbr>Editio of the Works of J.M.Barrie,sold only  \u003Cbr>by subscription,send for circular.  \u003Cbr>NEW YORK:CHARLES SCRIBNER's SONS   |\n| --- |\n\n\n| THE PLAYS OF  \u003Cbr>J.M.BARRIE  \u003Cbr>11   |\n| --- |\n| WHAT EVERY WOMAN  \u003Cbr>KNOWS  \u003Cbr>A COMEDY  \u003Cbr>.2”  \u003Cbr>15  \u003Cbr>6   |\n| CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS  \u003Cbr>NEW YORK:::::::::1928   |\n\n7803  \n4079  \n2  \nCoPYRIGHT,1918,BY  \nJ.M.BARRIE  \n—  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nAl rights resersed gnder the International Copyright Act.Perforsance forbidden and right of representasion reserued.Application for the right of performing this play must bemade to Charles Frokmsan,Inc.,Empire Theatre,New York.  \nT  \nJames Wylie is about to make a move on the dambrod,and in the little Scotch room there is an awful silencebefitting the occasion.James with his hand poised—for if he touches a piece he has to play it,Alick willsee to that—raises his red head suddenly to readAlick’s face.His father,who is Alick,is pretendingto be in a panic lest James should make this move.James grins heartlessly,and his fingers are about toclose on the ‘man'when some instinct of self-pre-servation makes him peep once more.This time Alickis caught:the unholy ecstasy on his face tells asplain as porridge that he has been luring James todestruction.James glares;and,too late,his opponentis a simple old father again.James mops his head,sprawls in the manner most conducive to thought inthe Wylie family,and,protruding his underlip,settles down to a reconsideration of the board.Alickblows out his cheeks,and a drop of water settles onthe point of his nose.  \nYou will find them thus any Saturday night(afterfamily worship,which sends the servant to bed);  \n121976  \nand sometimes the pauses are so long that in theend they forget whose move it is.  \nIt is not the room you would be shown into if youwere calling socially on Miss Wylie.The drawing-room for you,and Miss Wylie in a coloured merino toreceive you;very likely she would exclaim,‘This isa pleasant surprise !'though she has seen you comingup the avenue and has just had time to whip the dust-cloths off the chairs,and to warn Alicke,David andJames,that they had better not dare come in to seeyou before they have put on a dickey.Nor is this theroom in which you would dine in solemn grandeurif invited to drop in and take pot-lucke,which is howthe Wylies invite,it being a family weakness to pre-tend that they sit douwn in the dining-room daily.It is the real living room of the house,where Alick,who will neve","cbCaikJL2pExGN8F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikJL2pExGN8F","pdf",5774135,172,"English","# WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS\n## J.M. 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