Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteAt the end of the nineteenth century and into the beginning of the twentieth, a new way of behaviour for Society was known as the ‘Eleventh Commandment’. This was – ‘thou shalt not be found out’.
As I have described in this book, a lady entertained an admirer at teatime when her husband was at his Club and was expected to stay there until it was time to dress for dinner.
Girls badly educated and kept in the background were not asked to stay in smart house parties, but were married off as quickly as possible.
After a young married woman had been faithful to her husband for about ten years and produced an heir, it was considered reasonable for her to have a discreet affaire de coeur as long as the ‘Eleventh Commandment’ was strictly observed.
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