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`` Why should it be the woman ? '' `` Because the woman , '' answered Mrs. Amber quoting someone she had once heard , `` is naturally selected for it . '' `` Mother , '' said Marie , `` do n't be tiresome . '' Mrs. Amber went away reluctantly at three o'clock . She was a wise woman , and did not want to appear ubiquitous . At four , while Marie was unpacking the trunks they had brought yesterday , Julia came in . `` I begged off an hour earlier , '' she stated .