"Don't be forgetting that this is our Day of
Jubilee. We are free--I hope we are free forever--from petty
annoyances and dissatisfactions and little, galling things that
sear the soul and bring out all the worst in human nature. I
couldn't do anything to Eileen's suite, not even if I resorted to
tearing out partitions and making it new from start to finish,
that would eliminate Eileen from it for me. If Marian will give
me permission to move and install her things in it, I think she
can use it without any such feeling, but I couldn't. It's agreed
then, Katy, I am to write to Marian and extend to her a welcome
on your part as well as on mine?"
"That ye may, lambie," said Katy heartily. "And, as the boss
used to be sabin', just to make assurance doubly sure, if YoU
would address it for me I would be writing' a bit of a line
myself, conveying' to her me sentiments on the subject."
"Oh, fine, Katy; Marian would be delighted!" cried Linda,
springing up.
"And, Katy dear, it won't make us feel any more like mourning for
Eileen when I tell you that it developed at the bank yesterday
and today, that since she has been managing household affairs she
has deposited in a separate account all the royalties from
Father's books. I had thought the matter closed at the bank when
this fund was added to the remainder of the estate, the household
expenses set aside to Eileen, and the remainder divided equally
between us. I didn't get the proof that she was not my sister
until after I came home.
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