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When they were safely in their rooms, behind locked doors, Flo threw herself into Mrs. Ponderby's motherly arms and wept as hard as she could, which was really pretty hard.
Patty stood by, looking at her. It had been a nerve strain for Patty, and now the reaction was coming on. Her lip quivered, and she said: "It isn't fair of you, Flo, to take up all Mrs. Ponderby; I'm worse off than you are, for I don't know but what my father is killed in some awful railroad smash-up."