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Melbourne tale of romance and women's work and friendship. A short sleep and dream in a young female friend's room where she learns of the girl's love for the handsome young man who has proposed to herself, convinces the older woman to refuse him. Her love must be for her work for she refuses to make three of them unhappy. Tale of women, society, sophistication and innocence and loyalty. Subdued tone of reflection, self-abnegation, service, faith etc. (PB)
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The note rejecting the younger man's proposal, which the older woman writes in the story, is prominently signed 'Anne Almer', giving the story an autobiographical tinge.
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