Pamela reminds her husband Arthur, who is expressing qualms of conscience, that he is actually just as nasty a person as her, and that's why they're happy in their marriage. Their relationship is seen in action when they bug the bedroom of their guests who had the bad manners to win at bridge.
First published in the New Yorker, June 21, 1952.
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| 1953 |
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Someone Like You | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | |
| 1954 | Someone Like You | Secker & Warburg | Collection | ||
| 1961 |
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Someone Like You | Michael Joseph | Collection | |
| August 1961 |
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Someone Like You | Dell | Collection | 64 |
| 1965 |
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Someone Like You | Four Square Books | Collection | |
| 1965 |
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Someone Like You | Dell | Collection | |
| November 1969 |
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Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | |
| 1970 |
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Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | 57 |
| 1972 |
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Someone Like You | Pocket Books | Collection | |
| February 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Michael Joseph | Collection | ||
| February 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | ||
| September 1979 |
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Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | 48 |
| 1980 |
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Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | 43 |
| September 1986 |
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Completely Unexpected Tales | Penguin Books | Omnibus | |
| August 1990 |
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Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | 481 | |
| February 2000 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Collection | 195 |
| March 2000 |
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Ten Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 61 |
| July 2000 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Viking | Collection | 194 |
| September 2001 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Puffin | Collection | 195 |
| January 2002 | Skin and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 195 | |
| October 2006 |
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Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 370 |
| September 2008 |
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Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books Australia | Collection | 43 |
| December 2009 |
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Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| December 2009 |
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Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection |