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A girl should either have enough money or be completely dependent on her male relations . As a girl was usually young reflected Mr. Twist , his spectacles with the Broadway lights in them blazing on the two specimens opposite him , it was safest for her to be dependent . So were her actions controlled , and kept within the bounds of wisdom . And next morning , as he sat waiting for the twins for breakfast at ten o'clock according to arrangement the night before , their grape-fruit in little beds of ice on their plates and every sort of American dish ordered , from griddle cakes and molasses to chicken pie , a page came in with loud cries for Mr. Twist , which made him instantly conspicuous -- a thing he particularly disliked -- and handed him a letter . The twins had gone . They had left early that morning for Boston , determined , as they wrote , no longer to trespass on his kindness . There had been a discussion in their bedroom the night before when they got back in which Anna-Rose supplied the heat and Anna-Felicitas the arguments , and it ended in Anna-Felicitas succeeding in restoring Anna-Rose to her original standpoint of proud independence , from which , lured by the comfort and security of Mr. Twist 's companionship , she had been inclined to slip .