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"Well, all I say is, the traveller better enjoy herself on her travels," said Aunt Fanny, finally, as the subject appeared to be wearing toward exhaustion "She certainly is in for it when the voyaging is over and she arrives in the port she sailed froree with the rest of you: she'll have a great deal to answer for, and most of all about the shortest one My own opinion is that the shortest one is going to burst like a balloon"

"The shortest one," as the demure Florence had understood from the first, was none other than her Very Ideal Now she looked up froainst a pilaster of theWhat is a person's reason?"

The fat gentlelass before responding "Well, there are persons I never could find any reason for at all 'A person's reason'? What do you mean, 'a person's reason,' Florence?"

"I mean: like when somebody says, 'They'll lose their reason,'" she explained "Has everybody got a reason, and if they have, what is it, and how do they lose it, and ould they do then?"

"Oh! I see!" he said "You needn't worry I suppose since you heard it you've been hunting all over yourself for your reason and looking to see if there was one hanging out of anybody else, so you can't see, ordinarily, Florence Losing your reason is just another way of saying, 'going crazy'!"

"Oh!" she murht proper to offer a witticism for the pleasure of the co like youlaughter ranging fro soprano; then he added: "Espeshually when you co! You cert'nly 'lose your reason' every time you come around that ole place!"

"Well, course I haf to act like the people that's already there," Florence retorted, not sharply, but in atone that should have warned him It was not her wont to use a quiet voice for repartee Thinking her huhed the ht her "Say not so! Say not so!"