She had lived at Golden Gate Cottage only a year . `` Before that , I lived away down the country at Millbridge with a cousin . My Uncle Ephraim owned Golden Gate Cottage , and when he died he left it to me and I came here to live . It is a pretty place , is n't it ? You see those two headlands out there ? In the morning , when the sun rises , the water between them is just a sea of gold , and that is why Uncle Ephraim had a fancy to call his place Golden Gate . I love it here . It is so nice to have a home of my own . I would be quite content if I had more company . But I have you today , and perhaps Beatrice and Helen will come next week . So I 've really a great deal to be thankful for . '' `` What is your Cousin Abner 's other name ? '' asked Mary , with a vague recollection of hearing of Beatrice and Helen -- somebody -- in Trenton . `` Reed -- Abner Abimelech Reed , '' answered Miss Sally promptly . `` A.A. Reed , he signs himself now . He is very well-to-do , I am told , and he carries on business in town . He was a very fine young man , my Cousin Abner . I do n't know his wife . '' Mary and Ida exchanged glances . Beatrice and Helen Reed !
They knew them slightly as the daughters of a new-rich family who were hangers-on XXXXX the fashionable society in Trenton .
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