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Lucy Wren
"Yes, that's Lucy."
"She looks the very thing. Not pretty, but not exactly a dowd. My girls wouldn't care to be sent off with a dowd."
"Sugar?" said Tom, slowly.
"No thanks," said Lucy.
He dropped a lump into her cup.
"Tom!" exclaimed Ella, whose eyes and ears were everywhere. "Lucy said no—give it me, dear, I'll take it out."