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`` I know , '' said Bean ; `` he says he ca n't make me out . '' `` And Moms began to say the silliest things about you , until I just had to take her seriously , so I perfectly told her that woman had come into her own in this generation , thanks to a few noble leaders of our sex -- it 's in Granny 's last speech at the league -- and that sent her up in the air . I do n't think she can be as well as she used to be ; and I told Pops he had to give me some money , and he said he knew it as well as I did , so what was the use of talking about it , and so he just perfectly gave me fifty or sixty thousand dollars and told me to make it go as far as I could , but I do n't know , that grocer says the cost of living is going up every day because the Senate is n't insurgent enough ; and anyway I 'll get the tickets and a suite on that little old boat that sails Wednesday . I thought you 'd want a day or two ; and everything will be very quiet , only the family present , coming into town for it , you know , Wednesday morning , and the boat sails at noon , and I 'll be so perfectly glad when it 's all over because it 's a very serious step for a young girl to take . Granny herself says it should never be taken lightly , unless you just perfectly know , but of course we do , do n't we ? I think you 'll like fumed oak better , after all -- and poor old Pops saying you 're such a puzzle to him . He says he ca n't make out just how many kinds of a perfectly swear-word fool you are , but I can , and that 's just deliciously enough for anybody .