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Updated: May 29, 2025
"If you have anything to be grateful for," she said, "it is for the lectures I have given you, and which, I am afraid, I ought to continue to give you. As to what was done here yesterday I consider myself as much benefited as anybody, and I suppose Sylvia is of the same opinion regarding herself. But there is one person to whom you truly ought to be grateful Miss Laniston." "I know that," I said.
One thing only could I comprehend: I must remove this impression from the mind of Miss Laniston, and I could think of no other way of doing it than to confide to her the business on which I wished to see Mother Anastasia.
I wish to see her on an important matter, which can be explained only in a personal interview." "You excite my curiosity," said Miss Laniston. "Why don't you make me your confidante? In that case, I might decide whether or not it would be proper to give you the address." "Impossible," I said, "that would be impossible."
Heming; but as for Miss Laniston, that is the lady who is visiting us, I would not have her see me doing this for anything in the world. She hates the House of Martha, although she used to be one of its friends, and I know that she would like to see me leave the sisterhood. She ridicules us whenever she has a chance, and to see me here would be simply nuts to her." "Is she a bad-tempered lady?"
"Perhaps so," said Miss Laniston, "but not a bit more than the rest of you. You are the most unreasonable lot I ever met with.
I could not believe that Mother Anastasia had ever imagined any of the stuff that Miss Laniston had talked about, but she certainly had shown me that she was greatly offended with me, and nothing offends me so much as to have people offended with me. Such persons I do not wish to meet.
We caught the train, and on the way I explained my allusion to the wasp so far as to assure Walkirk that I was no more crazy than men badly crossed in love are apt to be. "But are you really going to Miss Laniston?" he said. "I shall be able to drive up there, give her fifteen minutes with five as a margin, and reach the steamer in time.
I took down the card to which the wasp was affixed, I found a little box in which to put it, and while I was looking for a rubber band by which to secure the lid, a servant came hurriedly into the room with a telegram for me. I tore it open. It was from Miss Laniston and read thus: "Come to me as soon as you can. Important business." "Important business!" I ejaculated.
"I beg your pardon," he said, in apologizing for his abstraction, "but I was thinking what a funny thing it would be to be a brother of the House of Martha. As to the address let me see. Do you remember that lady who was staying with Mrs. Raynor, at her island, who called herself a Person, Miss Laniston?" "Of course I remember her," I answered, "and with the greatest disgust."
"Any way," said Sylvia, "he will tell me all about it." "If he does," said Miss Laniston, "you will re-enter a convent." When the House of Martha had been formally abolished, the members of the sisterhood made various dispositions of themselves.
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