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When, the next morning, pale and heavy-eyed, she was making a pretense of breakfasting, Nabby came in from the kitchen with an announcement.
"Esther," she said, "your Aunt Reliance Clark is here at the side door. She wants to see you, she says. I told her you was eatin' your breakfast, but she said never mind, she'd wait till you got done. Pretty early in the mornin' to come callin', seems to me."