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told her she need not return Then she sat and told the children

a story Instead of soothing it excited them, and added to their

wakefulness She left the about

the conclusion of the tale which their ht

The little black girl came in to say that Madao and sit with them over at the house till Mr

Robert went away Edna returned answer that she had already undressed,

that she did not feel quite well, but perhaps she would go over to the

house later She started to dress again, and got as far advanced as to

re her noir, and went outside and sat down before her door She was

overheated and irritable, and fanned herself energetically for a while

Madanolle came down to discover as the matter

"All that noise and confusion at the table must have upset me," replied

Edna, "and moreover, I hate shocks and surprises The idea of Robert

starting off in such a ridiculously sudden and dramatic way! As if

it were aa word about it all

when he ith me"