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We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret
which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language possesses a vivid saying to
describe this sort of situation. The terrible secret is called "a skeleton in the cupboard". At some
dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined. The reader
’s hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a
dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of
her five husbands.