William Dean Howells Quote

I do not know how it is that clergymen and physicians keep from telling their wives the secrets confided to them; perhaps they can trust their wives to find them out for themselves whenever they wish.


The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter XXVII (p. 511), Houghton Mifflin Company. 1912


I do not know how it is that clergymen and physicians keep from telling their wives the secrets confided to them; perhaps they can trust their wives...

I do not know how it is that clergymen and physicians keep from telling their wives the secrets confided to them; perhaps they can trust their wives...

I do not know how it is that clergymen and physicians keep from telling their wives the secrets confided to them; perhaps they can trust their wives...

I do not know how it is that clergymen and physicians keep from telling their wives the secrets confided to them; perhaps they can trust their wives...