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`` I 'll force the child on , '' Miss Wigger promised , `` till she can earn her board and lodging by taking my lowest class . When she gets older she will replace my regular governess , and I shall save the salary . '' With this proposal waiting for a reply , Mrs. Westerfield had only to inform her sister that it was accepted . `` Come here , '' she wrote , `` on Friday next , at any time before two o'clock , and Syd shall be ready for you . P.S. -- I am to be married again on Thursday , and start for America with my husband and my boy by next Saturday 's steamer . '' The letter was posted ; and the mother 's anxious mind was , to use her own phrase , relieved of another worry . As the hour of eight drew near on Wednesday evening , Mrs. Westerfield 's anxiety forced her to find relief in action of some kind .