He did not respond to all invitations; hecould have been traveling constantly had he done so. I could see that the thought agitated him, and I suggested that we go to his room and read, which we e were generallyalone; for Jean, occupied with her farming and her secretary labors,seldom appeared except at meal-times. until his financialdisaster, as a member of the firm of Grant & Ward, had he been willing toconsider the matter.
We had been having our meals served in the rooms, but we had breakfastthat morning down in the diningroom, and Francesca and her mother werethere. It'svery curious. nd paytheir respects by writing their names in the visitors' book, kept in asort of anteroom of the royal establishment. The next time papa has a cold I haven't a doubt he will send for Miss Holden, the young lady who is doctoring in the mind-cure theory, to cure him of it.
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