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Mrs. Henry Gamadge was endowed by nature with high spirits and good sense; she therefore reacted cheerfully to the bright coolness of the following morning—Thursday, July the second. She put on a dress that was very much the color of the rambler roses, and looked at herself in the little glass of the painted bureau, while she arranged the thick, smooth waves of her hair, with calm determination.
She had made up her mind to behave today as Gamadge would have behaved in the same circumstances. She would approach this curious business of the door that opened itself, the watcher in the sunbonnet, Miss Radford’s ambiguous behavior about her ownership of the cottage, with a detached and open mind. Clara did not think that she herself was superstitious; she was annoyed with
