Word: harridan
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...sooner had she gone than the doctor began to feel guilty, was soon beside himself with remorse, aggravated by fever. He pursued her to the city, dogged her footsteps, offered his services imploringly. At last he was summoned. She had gone to the Chinese quarter, to a filthy old harridan who had nearly killed her, was now at death's door. All the doctor could do was hold the door open politely. But after she was dead he made out a false certificate of the cause of death, so that her husband would never know. Then he left...
...dream had not come true. Think of Cinderella in the guise of a dreamy servant girl of Budapest; in love with a grey-haired prince, who scolded her cruelly and ate potatoes with his knife. Think finally of Cinderella serving at his wedding to a greedy old harridan with money. Under such circumstances Cinderella might have taken to the streets. Molnar's did. There was a final act in a police court, in which the beauty and the poignancy of her suffering grew to a glowing climax...
Terrible hint! Was I doomed to have that harridan beside me all the evening? And her "Master Morris" too; as if I were four years...