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Rh and the poor woman had no power to stop her. Angelina took what money there was in the house, and departed  in spite of her mother’s anger. She said that she was tired of Shiloh, and that she wished to pay a visit in  Lynn. She also announced that she might spend the rest of the summer in Lynn, if she could get a place in a factory. Poor Mrs. Rosa is so easy-going that she did not know how to prevent this; and, with her bundle of clothes  under her arm, Angelina had gone to the station before  her mother saw any way to stop her. You may be glad to know, however, that your meeting her, and your word  of advice, had much to do with bringing about her return  to Shiloh. She is a flighty little thing, and the sight of you, Brenda, and Nora (so she afterwards confessed to me)  reminded her of all that you and the other girls had  done for her and her mother, and so she thought that  to show her appreciation of it all she ought to go back to  Shiloh, and give it another trial. At least, that was the way she put it to me when I went to look her up after  Julia wrote me that she had been in Lynn.”

Julia looked rather sober during this recital.

“I am afraid that we are going to have trouble with Angelina. If she runs off whenever she has the notion, it is going, to be very hard for her mother. Do you think that Mrs. Rosa is improving?”

“It is rather too soon for any decided change to be seen. But the fresh air, and the exercise that she gets every day in the garden, is working wonders. Her color is better, and she seems much brighter.”