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This is partly selfish advice , for I greatly desire the opportunity to treat your father hospitably . He was my friend when I was a girl , you remember , and I looked up to him with very great admiration . '' And so these two friends sat and talked , and talked , and talked until it was positively shameful , considering that the Broadstone horses were accustomed to be fed and watered at noon , and that the coachman was very hungry . When , at last , Mrs. Easterfield drove home , and it must have been three in the afternoon , she left Olive very much comforted , even in regard to the unfortunate obligations which had fallen upon her uncle . For now that her old father had gone , all intercourse with the Port woman would cease . But in her own mind Mrs. Easterfield was not so very much comforted . It was all well enough to talk about Olive and her uncle and the happiness and safety of the home he had given her , but that sort of thing could not last very long .