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Updated: June 17, 2025
"She is not attached to him in any such manner," Henry Roberts said; "I wonder a little at it, myself. He is a good youth." The doctor looked at him wonderingly; it occurred to him that if he had a daughter he would understand her better than Philly's father understood her. "I think the child cares for him," he said; then, hesitatingly, he referred to John Fenn's sickness.
"I suppose you know about it?" he said. Philly's father bent his head; he knew, he thought, only too well; no divine revelation in a disordered digestion! "Don't you think," William King said, smiling, "you might try to make her feel that she is wrong not to accept him, now that the charm has worked, so to speak?" "The charm?" the old man repeated, vaguely.
But Philippa did not listen much to his certainties; she coaxed his little sister into her pew, and sat with the child cuddled up against her, watching her turn over the leaves of the hymn-book or trying to braid the fringe of Miss Philly's black silk mantilla into little pigtails.
Try the mystic page, and read What the vision has decreed. Philly, holding her red lip between her teeth, turned the pages: "MONEY. TO DREAM OF FINDING MONEY; MOURNING AND LOSS. She shut the book sharply, then opened it again. She looked furtively at Mary; but the child, pulling down a great hollyhock to pick the fuzzy yellow disks, was not noticing Miss Philly's interest in the "foolish book."
The bird rustled in the leaves above them; a butterfly wavered slowly down to settle on a purple flag in the sunshine. Philly's eyes filled with blessed tears. She stretched out her arms to her father and smiled. ... "and I," said William King, telling the story that night to Dr. Lavendar "I just wanted to say 'the voice of COMMON SENSE!"
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