Well , I did n't like the idea of going and explaining to Dick very much , but it had to be done unless I wanted to run the risk of having Pinky Carewe in the family . So I went the next morning . I put on my very prettiest pink organdie dress and did my hair the new way , which is very becoming to me . When you are going to have an important interview with a man it is always well to look your very best . I put on my big hat with the wreath of pink roses that Aunt Tommy had brought me from New York and took my spandy ruffled parasol . `` With your shield or upon it , Jill , '' said Jacky when I started . -LRB- This is another classical allusion . -RRB- I went straight up the hill and down the road to the manse where Dick lived with his old housekeeper , Mrs. Dodge . She came to the door when I knocked and I said , very politely , `` Can I see the Reverend Stephen Richmond , if you please ? '' Mrs. Dodge went upstairs and came right back saying would I please go up to the study . Up I went , my heart in my mouth , I can tell you , and there was Dick among his books , looking so pale and sorrowful and interesting , for all the world like Lord Algernon Francis in the splendid serial in the paper cook took . There was a Madonna on his desk that looked just like Aunt Tommy . `` Good evening , Miss Elizabeth , '' said Dick , just as if I were grown up , you know . `` Wo n't you sit down ? Try that green velvet chair . I am sure it was created for a pink dress and unfortunately neither Mrs. Dodge nor I possess one . How are all your people ? '' `` We are all pretty well ; thank you , '' I said , `` except Aunt Tommy . She -- '' I was going to say , `` She cries every night after she goes to bed , '' but I remembered just in time that if I were in Aunt Tommy 's place I would n't want a man to know I cried about him even if I did . So I said instead '' -- she has got a cold . ''
`` Ah , indeed , I am sorry XXXXX hear it , '' said Dick , politely but coldly , as if it were part of his duty as a minister to be sorry for anybody who had a cold , but as if , apart from that , it was not a concern of his if Aunt Tommy had galloping consumption .
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