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ARTHUR was afraid lest his sisters should see that something was troubling him, and took care to greet Molly with a smile and a joke. But he soon found that his younger sister was too much interested in what she was doing to pay much attention to him.
"What is that thing? " he asked, after watching her snip, snip, snip with the scissors as if her life depended upon the completion of her task.