THIN ICE
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"I'm goin' to send me old ones back home for me sister," she continued. "I thought perhaps you'd be so kind, ma'am, as to tell me how I'd best do 'em away from the moths. They're that bad in this country."
"Why certainly, Charlotte. Suppose I put them away for you along with our own winter things. I have a big chest I keep them in and we never have the least trouble."
"O ma'am, would you be so kind! I'd know they was safe then!" she exclaimed with kindling eyes.
"And I would be safe too!" I exclaimed in the depths of my own heart with a greater sense of relief than I dare let Charlotte see.
