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You know, nothing has ever been really the matter<br />

with me and nothing really horrible has ever happened,<br />

except, you know, of course, when I lost you. But they<br />

advertise late at night the most pitiful souls, deformed or<br />

starved and dying day after day. And I can't even claim<br />

to understand it. How could I say I did?" She<br />

straightened a flower. "But I'm watching, and the funny<br />

thing is I keep falling asleep and I wake up, well, in<br />

tears without warning.<br />

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't see somebody<br />

about it. Suddenly I wake up in tears, and quite a bit of<br />

time has simply vanished. Isn't that funny?"<br />

Mrs. Canopy wasn't at all certain she thought it was<br />

funny, but she had always tried to look at life, if not with<br />

Priss's derisive snort of laughter, at least with the smile<br />

she now gave her husband's tomb.<br />

chapter 15<br />

No man can escape the detection of his<br />

housekeeper, whether a paid one or his wife. Sammy<br />

Smalter was not married, but his rooms on the third<br />

floor of Ramona Dingley's house were cleaned every

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