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 sure. Any one would say so: but I don't absolutely know. Something might be known now that I haven't heard; of course that something might be either way. Flora would have heard, if any one did. I'll write Flora."

Several days later she again inscribed: "I ought to write Flora." But she did not; she put it off and off, lulling her fears by various visits to fortune tellers. From the past, there was nothing of great account to trouble her, they said.