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what you're told without argument." He sat down in another chair. When Sara had gone Alice explained to him who Evelyn Dearie was.

"Now she's begun it," he said with sour cynicism. "I'll bet I'll never be able to sit down in a chair in comfort without hearing her squawk that I'm sitting on Evelyn Dearie."

So it proved. Evelyn Dearie had an unfortunate way of being in the chair that one wanted. Tom scandalized Alice by saying,

"You've got to tell Evelyn Dearie to keep out of my big chair. If Evelyn doesn't want to get squashed tell her to keep out!"