No, I couldn't
tell you in a week half about John, and he didn't want me to come.
If I would come, then he wanted me to wait a few days until he
finished a deal so he could bring me, but the minute I thought of
it I was determined to come; you know how you get."
"I know how badly you want to do a thing you have set your heart
on," admitted Kate.
"I had gone places with Susette in perfect comfort. I think the
trouble was that she tried from the first to attract John. About
the time we started, he let her see plainly that all he wanted of
her was to take care of me; she was pretty and smart, so it made
her furious. She was pampered in everything, as no maid I ever
had before. John is young yet, and I think he is very handsome,
and he wouldn't pay any attention to her. You see when other boys
were going to school and getting acquainted with girls by
association, even when he was a little bit of a fellow in knee
breeches, I had to let him sell papers, and then he got into a
shop, and he invented a little thing, and then a bigger, and
bigger yet, and then he went into stocks and things, and he
doesn't know anything about girls, only about sick old women like
me.
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