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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 440858" data-attributes="member: 2740">I imagine Ellie knew a lot, but who knows the degree to which she managed to repress it - perhaps even to the point where she didn’t “consciously” know..  I suppose Dr. Ellby probably could have hypnotized it out of her.I always found the most interesting part of that speech to JR to be the vitriol behind the word “discreet”..  It was pretty clear that that was what Ellie found most objectionable about JR’s treatment of Sue Ellen.  Charitably, it was like “boys will be boys, but the worst thing you could to Sue Ellen is flaunt it all over town”.Really though, it came across a lot like “proper classy people like the Southworths/Ewings keep their extramarital affairs hidden from the public.  You’re embarrassing *me* with your behavior.”</blockquote>