Now it only remained to inform Mr. Meredith . `` Will you please shut that door ? '' said Mrs. Davis , unprimming her mouth slightly to say it , but speaking with asperity . `` I have something important to say , and I ca n't say it with that racket in the hall . '' Mr. Meredith shut the door meekly . Then he sat down before Mrs. Davis . He was not wholly aware of her yet . His mind was still wrestling with Ewald 's arguments . Mrs. Davis sensed this detachment and it annoyed her . `` I have come to tell you , Mr. Meredith , '' she said aggressively , `` that I have decided to adopt Una . '' `` To -- adopt -- Una ! '' Mr. Meredith gazed at her blankly , not understanding in the least . `` Yes . I 've been thinking it over for some time . I have often thought of adopting a child , since my husband 's death . But it seemed so hard to get a suitable one . It is very few children I would want to take into MY home . I would n't think of taking a home child -- some outcast of the slums in all probability . And there is hardly ever any other child to be got . One of the fishermen down at the harbour died last fall and left six youngsters .
They tried XXXXX get me to take one , but I soon gave them to understand that I had no idea of adopting trash like that .
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