I've been warned already, one of Laura's classmates contributed,'that if you know steno, don't tell your boss. Iris and she had travelled from Magnolia in a drab day coachwith twenty-five dollars to their name. She set the lamp on a flat rock near the lip of the mirror pool, so that its light would reflect, as would the crescent moon, into the water. Why didn't Mom tell us Phil and she were married? Didn't we have aright to know? Laura waited with simmering restlessness for the train to pull into theMagnolia depot.
Laura, I can't believe it! I'm almost forty-four years old. We've waitedthirty-one years for this. He deridednewspaper reports of Hitler's atrocities against German Jews. She hesitated, thenmentioned a fee that she knew would meet with his approval.
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