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Tamer and Jack stayed all night, and the next day but one we wuz all to meet at Thomas Jefferson's, and then she wuz goin' home and leave Jack with me for a week or so. The prospect wuz very pleasin' to Jack and me, and to Delight, for she wuz going to stay too. The next day, bein' we wuz alone together, except the children, it seemed as if Tamer wuz just crazy to onburden her heart to me about her trouble in makin' Anne listen to what she called reason and marry Von Crank, and the ingratitude of a child's disobeyin' her parents, and the imprudence and recklessness of her love for a poor young man. And of course, seein' she wuz a visitor, I had to set and hear the talk dribble on. Why, the idee of punishin' Jack for talkin' about marriage when he didn't hear anything else when he wuz in the house.

I let it go on, thinkin' I had said all I could on the subject. But at last, for wimmen's patience can't hold out only jest so long, she promulgated the idee that she thought that she should send Anne to the Convent of the Holy Heart; sez she, "She can learn some accomplishments there of the Sisters that she can't anywhere else. But," sez she confidentially, "the real reason I am doing it is to separate her from Tom Willis, for if I could once git her mind off from him I believe I could make her marry the man I want her to."