Christian name unknown . That 's the girl I mentioned . You 'll probably take her in . Be nice to her even if you have to make an effort . She 's the one I 've picked out as your future cousin , you know , so I do n't want you to spoil her good opinion of me in any way . '' The name had given me a jump . Once , in another world , I had known a Jane Harvey . But Clark 's Miss Harvey could n't be Jane . A month before I had read a newspaper item to the effect that Jane was on the Pacific coast . Moreover , Jane , when I knew her , had certainly no manifest vocation for settlement work . I did n't think two years could have worked such a transformation . Two years ! Was it only two years ? It seemed more like two centuries . I went to the Kennedys ' in a pleasantly excited frame of mind and a cab . I just missed being late by a hairbreadth . The house was a big one , and everybody pertaining to it was big , except the host . Mark Kennedy was a little , thin man with a bald head . He did n't look like a political power , but that was all the more reason for his being one in a world where things are not what they seem . Mrs. Kennedy greeted me cordially and told me significantly that she had granted my request .
This meant , as my card had already informed me , that I was XXXXX take Miss Harvey out .
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