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What Every Woman Knows
Jm. Barrie
The Twelve-Pound Look
by Jm. Barrie
Synopsis
On the eve of his knighthood, Harry Simms is full of the great things he considers he has achieved.
A typist has been hired to answer the messages of congratulation.
She turns out to be his former wife, Kate, who was so oppressed by his hardness and petty mindedness that she secretly learned to type and left him as soon as she had earned 12 pounds, the price of a typewriter.
She is quite contented with her lot, and her fearlessness and humor contrast strongly with the cowed and joyless expression of the second Lady Simms who, when Kate has gone, asks the price of a typewriter.
Publication
The Twelve-Pound Look is a play written by Jm. Barrie and published by Samuel French .
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