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I can't pay the rent alone on my salary. You won't overdoit, he promised. Laura knew even before she emerged for the broker's car that this-wasthe house she would buy. He stretched his hand over her in blessing and went away.

Their belongings were packed in the same two brown leather suitcaseswith which their father and mother had travelled twenty-one years ago. We hadn't been inMagnolia for long, and Jonnie and I were having some trouble gettingused to everything. She mustn't say too much the children mustn't know her suspicious aboutDerek Slocum. That's whyshe hadn't told them.