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On her way to a lover’s apartment, a Parisian society wife discovers that habit can exhaust even the most forbidden affair.
A stranger’s watchful presence unsettles a fisherman’s household until his identity forces the family to reconsider every bond within it.
A divorced man meets his remarried former wife at a hotel and turns their old grievances into a calculated new proposal.
A marquise arrives laughing with a secret: she has chosen a direct revenge on her jealous, abusive husband.
A bored baroness copies a window signal she sees across the street and discovers that curiosity can be taken as a business offer.
A smug husband decides he would recognize any sign of adultery and devises a test that may prove more than he wants to know.
A miserly woman refuses to replace her husband’s ruined umbrella—until an insurance policy suggests a way to avoid paying.
A suitor under constant observation begins a secret affair, then mistakes the wrong woman at a château window.
A ferry passenger learns why an old friend’s marriage soured after his once-enchanting English bride became easier to understand.
A beautiful countess rebels against the husband who has used pregnancy to control her, choosing a revenge designed to poison his certainty.
A bedridden tavern keeper’s furious wife finds an outrageous way to make him useful.
A failing shopkeeper finally tells his wife they face ruin, just as a family catastrophe offers an answer neither can admit wanting.
A timid shopkeeper eats a strange mushroom after a domestic quarrel and returns home with a violent idea of merriment.
A boarding-house owner decides how to handle her daughter’s relationship with one of her lodgers.
Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts’ annual dance, where an evening of music and conversation unsettles his assumptions.
With her husband away at war, a lonely young wife grows close to a visiting neighbor.
A farmer goes to a country ball to escape indecision about marriage and meets a woman with plans of her own.
A woman is surprised by her attraction to the friend her husband has invited to stay.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
A new wife leaves her husband to find a life she can choose for herself.
A young mother at a Louisiana plantation sees her husband's love vanish as rumors spread about their baby.
A lawyer urges a woman to divorce her absent husband and grows invested in her decision.
After hearing that her husband has died, a woman discovers an unexpected feeling while she sits alone.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
