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So Arden wonderingly thought on his return with a second load , as he saw her lift and handle things that he knew to be heavy . Her short , close-fitting working-dress outlined her fine figure to advantage , and with complexion bright and dazzling with exercise , she seemed to him some frail fairylike creature doomed by a cruel fate to unsuited toil and sorrows . But Edith was very matter-of-fact , and had never in all her life thought of herself as a fairy . Arden went home to dinner , and by one o'clock Edith said to Hannibal : `` There is one good thing about the place if no other . It gives one a savage appetite . What have you got in the basket ? '' `` A scrumptious lunch , Miss Edie .