When Miss Susan reached home she told Madge to bathe her eyes and put on her new pink muslin , because she guessed Burton would be down that evening . `` Oh , Auntie , how did you manage it ? '' cried Madge . `` Madge , '' said Miss Susan solemnly , but with dancing eyes , `` do you know how to drive a pig ? Just try to make it go in the opposite direction and it will bolt the way you want it . Remember that , my dear . '' Fair Exchange and No Robbery Katherine Rangely was packing up . Her chum and roommate , Edith Wilmer , was sitting on the bed watching her in that calm disinterested fashion peculiarly maddening to a bewildered packer . `` It does seem too provoking , '' said Katherine , as she tugged at an obstinate shawl strap , `` that Ned should be transferred here now , just when I 'm going away . The powers that be might have waited until vacation was over . Ned wo n't know a soul here and he 'll be horribly lonesome . '' `` I 'll do my best to befriend him , with your permission , '' said Edith consolingly . `` Oh , I know . You 're a special Providence , Ede . Ned will be up tonight first thing , of course , and I 'll introduce him . Try to keep the poor fellow amused until I get back . Two months ! Just fancy ! And Aunt Elizabeth wo n't abate one jot or tittle of the time I promised to stay with her . Harbour Hill is so frightfully dull , too . ''
Then the talk drifted around to XXXXX 's affairs .
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