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`` Never mind . We will get another , '' said Mrs. Anderson . Both Anderson and his mother had succeeded in quieting Charlotte 's lingering fears concerning her father . `` He probably got stunned , '' Anderson said ; `` and he can not be very bad or he would not be coming home on the noon train . '' He was talking to Charlotte from his mother 's room , with the door ajar . There was something conclusive in Anderson 's voice which reassured Charlotte . `` My son would not say so unless he thought so , '' said Mrs. Anderson .