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I feel in my bones that there 's trouble coming out of this wild-goose chase of yours . '' It was not characteristic of Joel to keep his grievances secret . Wherever he went for the next few days , he fairly oozed reproach and resentment . And on the Monday when Persis took the ten o'clock train for Boston it was generally understood that she had declined the pleasure of her brother 's company and was bent on an errand whose nature she alone knew . `` She 'll put up at a hotel , I suppose , '' said Mrs. Hornblower . `` She 'll have to , for there 's nobody in Boston she knows well enough to visit . A single woman staying alone at a hotel sounds dreadful improper to me .