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`` Well , I was to have written to you , and I never did , '' recommenced Miss Buff . `` Out of sight , out of mind : do n't apologize ! '' But Miss Buff would explain and extenuate her broken promise : `` The fact is , my hands are almost too full : what with the school and the committee , the organ and church , the missionary club and my district , I am a regular lay-curate . Then there is Mr. Duffer 's early service , eight o'clock ; and Fridays and Wednesdays and all the saints ' days , and decorating for the great festivals -- perhaps a little too much of that , but on Whitsunday the chancel was lovely , was it not , Mrs. Carnegie ? '' Mrs. Carnegie nodded her acquiescence . `` Then I have a green-house at last , and that gives me something to do . I should like to show you my green-house , Bessie .