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`` Even I do it . I am sitting up for him to-night simply because I know he 'll want to tell me about it all when he comes in . '' `` It 's a good habit for a wife to cultivate , '' returned Miss Chris , shaking the raisins together . `` If my poor father stayed out until four o'clock in the morning he found my mother up and dressed when he came in . '' `` I should say it was ` poor ' grandmamma , '' commented Eugenia drily . `` But Dudley wo n't find me after midnight . '' Then she regarded Miss Chris affectionately .