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ack toward Dingley Falls. She did not understand at
all actually; plan-making was an integral and automatic
part of her personality, and so she assumed that Beanie
meant she had as yet made no full, no final, or no
airtight plan, whereas Beanie meant just what she said.
"We're very concerned, Beanie," Tracy went on, "and
want what's right and best for you. My, I've been so
worried, you can imagine. And Evelyn, we'll have to tell
her right away that you're fine. You are, aren't you?
Poor Evelyn, her patio, the vandalism I was telling you
about, it's shattered her nerves. She's always been
susceptible to the worst imaginings."
"But she didn't imagine this. Somebody did it."
"That's true. Really makes you wonder. My, here
we are already.
I'll just wait in the car, in case."
Seeing the Abernathy house, its lawn, the steps, the
black shutters, all exactly the same when everything else
had changed so much, was a shock to Beanie. She felt
she no longer had the right to use her key. She pressed
the doorbell, and when no one answered, she walked
back to the car. So Mrs. Canopy insisted on driving her