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Of course it was no time before grandmother knew about Jody. She made a great many sweetly sarcastic speeches about her but she never actually forbade Jane going over to play with her in the yard of 58. Jane was to be a good many years older before she understood the reason for that. understood that grandmother wanted to show any one who might question it that Jane had common tastes and liked low people.
-"Darling, is this Jody of yours a nice little girl?" mother had asked doubtfully.