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`` You are home early , '' said Mr. Langham , as Alice stood above him pulling at her gloves . `` I thought you said you were going on to some dance . '' `` I was tired , '' his daughter answered . `` Well , when I 'm out , '' commented Hope , `` I wo n't come home at eleven o'clock . Alice always was a quitter . '' `` A what ? '' asked the older sister .