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"No, I couldn't," said Kate

"Who came after you?" asked Mrs Holt

"Dr Gray," answered Kate

"That new doctor at Hartley? Why, be you an' hierly waiting in the

doorway Kate glanced at her and felt sudden pity The wo Possibly she

could not avoid being the disagreeable person she was Kate

smiled at her

"Worse than that," she said "We be relations in a few days

He's going to marry my sister Nancy Ellen next Tuesday"

Kate understood the indistinct gurgle she heard to be approving,

so she added: "He caet their new house ready for theive theht his hoive them?"

Kate's patience was exhausted "You'll have to wait until I co about things

before they have happened"

Then she picked up her telescope and saying "good-bye," left the

house

As they drove toward Hartley: "I'm anxious to see your house,"

said Kate "Did you find one in a good neighbourhood?"

"The very best, I think," said the doctor "That is all one could

offer Nancy Ellen"

"I'lad for you, too! She'll ood cook, she kno