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In a few minutes Willie came rushing back from his room, with his hands and face half wet and half dry.
"Grannie! grannie! " he panted -- "what a stupid I am! How can a body be so stupid! Of course you mean a doctor's work! My father comes nearer to people to help them than anybody else can -- and yet I never thought what you meant. How is it you can know a thing and not know it at the same moment?"