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"I wish you _would_ ask her up, Nan," said Mrs. Harte, confidentially. "I want her to see the place. So far as I can judge, it's the best thing for her. There isn't any doubt that she's a very bright girl, but she's getting thoroughly spoiled here. You see, she does just as she pleases -- she's the only young person in the family -- and I know we spoil her terribly. Her mind is made up to come out in the winter, here in Chicago, and they'll refuse her nothing -- her father and mother."
"They _don't_ seem what you'd call oppressively strict with her," remarked Anne, twirling her racquet.