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Rather melodramatically, Ghosts tells of the "lifeless old ideals, the dead beliefs," which forced Helene Aving to remain married to her wealthy but dissolute husband, whose venereal disease leads to his son's insanity. Since his death, these ideals have seemed to Mrs. Aving increasingly hollow, the sham life she...
¶ "Don't be like the old lady who, put on a diet, was discovered by her doctor eating a steak-&-kidney pudding. 'Yes, doctor,' she said, 'I've 'ad me diet; now I'm 'aving me dinner.'"