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Miss Billy Married

CHAPTER IV
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I shall not.

It wouldn't be best.

I should be like an interfering elder brother in your home.

I should spoil your young married life; and if I went away for two months you'd never forget the utter joy and freedom of those two months with the whole house ali to yourselves." At the beginning of this speech Billy's eyes had still carried their dancing smile, but as the peroration progressed on to the end, a dawning surprise, which soon became a puzzled questioning, drove the smile away.
Then Billy sat suddenly erect.
"Why, Aunt Hannah, that's exactly what Uncle William--" Billy stopped, and regarded Aunt Hannah with quick suspicion.

The next moment she burst into gleeful laughter.
Aunt Hannah looked grieved, and not a little surprised; but Billy did not seem to notice this.
"Oh, oh, Aunt Hannah--you, too! How perfectly funny!" she gurgled.


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