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this is the other one. But then I'm used to
sleeping alone, Mother reminded me; and she
said that probably you were, too, and that we'd
better do this way. I hope that you will like the
room."

"It is a lovely room!" enthusiastically cried
Betty, though with her voice properly subdued.
One could not imagine, Betty thought, that any
one could come in talking as noisily as the Lee
children occasionally found themselves doing in
the sweet liberty of home. Still, their mother
would hush too great a tumult, or their father
would say quietly, "I'm not in Buxton, Dick. I
can easily hear an ordinary tone!"

The maid unpacked Betty's bag and asked if
she should press the dress, confined in the bag
all day. Knowing that the Murchison house was
very warm, Betty had packed, a thin chiffon
dress, while wearing a dress to school, as well,
that was a little better than common.

"That hangs out easily," said Betty, "but it
is just as Lucia says."

"Press it then, Giovanna," said Lucia, and
the maid vanished with the frock.

The girls did a little temporary grooming,
but Lucia said that they would just visit until
time to dress for dinner. The dinner hour, she
said, was any time from seven to eight o'clock,

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