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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth.

Thank you for deciding to be here this evening.

Tonight we are continuing with the child woman's daughter.

But before we open our book,

take some time here for yourself to breathe and relax.

Take a big stretch and release any tension you might be holding in your muscles.

Focus on how your body feels and allow yourself to physically let go.

Now let's take a deep breath in and hold it for a moment before exhaling out and breathing away all your worries and concerns.

Once more, inhale, hold it a moment and exhale. Wonderful.

The first time Mary spoke to Mrs. Cafferty's lodger, it was when he insisted he carry a bucket of water up the stairs for her. Mary was disappointed that he had seen her in her house clothes, as she had become inordinately obsessed with fashion. She discussed all aspects of it with her mother,

who planned elaborate costumes for Mary in her mind, and shared all the rules of dress that she

knew and adhered to. Meanwhile, the policeman was silently fuming at Mary's dismissal of him.

He saw it a rejection from her person lower than himself and demanded retribution.

He stalked around the city, but he could never find her until one day when she walked down the street with the lodger from next door, chattering away like she had never done with him.

When she spotted the policeman hidden in a doorway, she grabbed her friend's arm tighter

and quickened her pace. By this time, her relationship with the new young man had grown

quite intimate. Her mother had taken pity on the boy and his endless appetite, had

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