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from an old and respectable family, Grandma? Not

even when you were growing up?"

"Of course not," she said "I wouldn't permit

myself to like someone like that"

"That's not so you can permit yourself

to do and not to do, Grand "It's

soe--

"

"I was never a foolish young woman, Laura,

never like any of these eirls nowadays

My father wouldn't have tolerated it anyway,

especially with race It

would have destroyed hihters"

She paused to pull herself up tight again "This is all

beside the point We're not here to discuss my past;