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`` How good you are to me ! '' Presently , under some compulsion , she was making an exposition of her small plans . Mrs. Bates was made to understand how some of the old Dearborn Seminary girls were trying to start a sort of clubroom in some convenient down-town building for typewriters and saleswomen and others employed in business . There was to be a room where they could get lunch , or bring their own to eat , if they preferred ; also a parlor where they could fill up their noon hour with talk or reading or music ; it was the expectation to have a piano and a few books and magazines . `` I remembered Lottie as one of the girls who went with us there , down on old Dearborn Place , and I thought perhaps I could interest Lottie 's mother , '' concluded Jane . `` And so you can , '' said Lottie 's mother , promptly . `` I 'll have Miss Peters -- but do n't you find it a little warm here ?