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You are eight-year-old Betty Vanderpoel, and you distrust the English baronet courting your sister Rosalie, though you can't say why. Sir Nigel Anstruthers is charming until crossed and irritated by a child who talks back, so you tell him you're glad not to be his sister. Rosalie accepts his proposal before telling you, and your mother asks only that you not turn one quarrel into a verdict. You have no fact to offer, only dread, and you say it before running from the room.
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