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She very carefully ordered special favours for the occasion , and selected two eligible and homeless young men from her list of acquaintances to fill out the table and to amuse Constance and Jane . Jim had to go to Sacramento on the Saturday before Thanksgiving for an important operation , but would be home again on Tuesday or Wednesday to take the head of his own table on the holiday . Julia offered , when the Friday night before his departure came , to help him with packing . They had dined very quietly with friends that night , and found themselves at home again not very long after ten o'clock . But Jim , sinking into a chair beside the library fire , with an assortment of new magazines at his elbow , politely declined . `` Oh , no , thank you ! Plenty of time for that in the morning .