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Rh get used to Shiloh. It’s so quiet there, so different from the North End.”

“But I should think that you could find a great deal to do helping your mother, enough, surely, to keep you busy.”

“Yes, ’m; the fact is, I ’ve been almost too busy, so I thought that before the boarders came down where I’m going to work at Mrs. Sholl’s, I’d make a visit at a girl’s  in Lynn. She used to go to my church, and she is coming back to visit me at Shiloh. ”

“The Rosas are getting up in the world, to have planned for visitors before they are well settled in Shiloh,” thought  Brenda. Even if Angelina had been able to read her thoughts, her self-complacency might not have been  disturbed.

“Are you going back to Lynn on this train?” asked Brenda.

“Well, I had n’t thought of it. I walked down to do an errand for a Mrs. Jims—the lady I’m visiting—it’s only a mile or two. When I heard the whistle I thought I’d watch the train come in. I didn’t know there was an accident until I got close up. It is n’t often I have such luck,—to see a real accident, and meet two friends. It would have been very exciting if that girl had been killed.”

Her tone was almost one of regret that the accident hadn’t ended in something worse than a mere shaking up  of the venturesome girl.

“If you have done your errand, we will invite you to ride back to Lynn with us.”