"George won't steal Grayce's necklace."
"Why not?"
"He knows Grace."
Mr. Llewellyn was compelled to recognize the force of her argument. His wife in her professional days had been one of the best-known panther-women on the silent screen. Nobody who had seen her in her famous role of Mimi, the female Apache in When Paris Sleeps, or who in private life had watched her dismissing a cook could pretend for an instant that she was a good person to steal pearl necklaces from.
"Grace would skin him."
(from The Luck of the Bodkins, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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