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I can remember distinctly how angry I became when she brought me a nice, new toothbrush and showed me what to do with it. This was the greatest indignity of all — the last straw. I threw the thing away and refused to use it; told her up and down that I was “no girl” and wouldn’t have any “girl things.”
“Do read that book, old man. And, I say, I’m not intimating that you’re an authority on burglary, but I thought you might tell me how I could prevent it in future.” I told him to buy himself a dollar-and-a-half dog, and let him sleep in the house.
