Notes - (VERSO)

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hands with him, for Sylvia’s sake she sat down in the chair he offered. But for no living human being’s sake could this determined Old Lady infuse any cordiality into her manner or her words. She went straight to the point with Lloyd simplicity.

“I have come to ask a favor of you,” she said, looking him in the eye, not at all humbly or mee meekly, as became a suppliant, but challengingly an challengingly and defiantly, as if she dared him to refuse.

“De-lighted to hear it, Cousin Margaret.” Never was anything so bland and gracious as his tone. “Anything I can do for