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"You know what's
been going on over there, well enough, Frank Bronson!"
"I don't even know what you're talking about."
"Oh, you don't? You don't know that Isabel takes George's side simply
because he's Eugene Morgan's best friend?"
"It seems to me you're talking pure nonsense," said Bronson sharply.
"Not impure nonsense, I hope!"
Amelia became shrill. "I thought you were a man of the world: don't
tell me you're blind! For nearly two years Isabel's been pretending
to chaperone Fanny Minafer with Eugene, and all the time she's been
dragging that poor fool Fanny around to chaperone her and Eugene!
Under the circumstances, she knows people will get to thinking Fanny's
a pretty slim kind of chaperone, and Isabel wants to please George
because she thinks there'll be less talk if she can keep her own
brother around, seeming to approve. 'Talk!' She'd better look out!
The whole town will be talking, the first thing she knows! She--"
Amelia stopped, and stared at the doorway in a panic, for her nephew
stood there.


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