My imagination played with terrible possibilities. Bigamy, murder, and forgery. Very few villains in books failed to hold the threat of exposure of one of those crimes over some hapless female. Perhaps Mrs Driffield had backed a bill; I could never quite understand what this meant, but I knew the consequences were disastrous.
W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale (1930), 71
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