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see. After a while Mama came along (she had been down to see Mrs Paget) but instead of sitting down as I feared she would, she said it was too cold and went into the cabin. Papa was taking a nap. Gladys would run backwards and forwards, and perch herself on the chair next me and listen to what we were saying out of her sharp little ears.
The day before Mr E. had said how sorry he would be not to see anything of

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me when we got to New York and that day and Tuesday he would laughingly wish we had a storm or something to keep us back so we would not land so soon. I said it was kind of him to say so and that I hoped I would see him often in N.Y. To which he answered: "Once a week after two or three times a day is not much" Of course he asked when I would be in and all that.

"I don't often care for a woman's company so much, but when I do care it makes me feel all the