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The reason they woke Wilbur was that Mrs. Wilbur Larch would not leave Nurse Angela's office, not even for lunch, not even for tea, and not even for the Lord's work. ' 'The chest?' Larch asked. un it four or five times, but she had no idea what the book was about, or whether she even liked it.

Larch was unprepared for Mrs. eir drugstore for free—and you call that being adopted!' 'Why, that ungrateful little snot!' said Nurse Angela. He lay not touching himself in [308] Wally's room, with Wally breathing deeply and sleeping peacefully beside him. Kissing each other good night, and then finding excuses to repeat the ritual—and finding novel ways to wake each other in the mornings.