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There was an interval of intense silence

"Did you faint?" Peachy asked in an awed voice

"I wept"

"You wept, Julia?" Peachy said "You!"

"I had not wept since htened me

almost as much as the fall Oh, how fast the tears ca melted and went away from me then A softness came

over me It was like a spell I have never been the same creature since

I cry easily now"

"Did you tell Billy?" Clara asked

"He saw me," Julia answered

"He saw - " It came froed him That's what determined him to help capture us

He said that he was afraid I would try it again I wouldn't have,

though"

Nobody spoke for a long time

"Julia! It was Chiquita who broke the silence this ti I, too, have alanted to ask you But I have never dared

before What was it teo into the Clubhouse that day? At

first you tried to keep us fros they gave us You threay the fans and the slippers

and the scarfs And you smashed your mirror"

"Billy asked me this sa diah