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‘I DON'T feel that I can part with Lisa now, just as she's beginning to be a help to me,' argued Mrs. Grubb, shortly after she had been welcomed and ensconced in a rocking-chair. ‘As Madame Goldmarker says, nobody else in the world would have given her a home these four years, and a good many wouldn't have had her round the house.'
‘That is true,' replied Mary, ‘and your husband must have been a very good man from all you tell me, Mrs. Grubb.'