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Before she closed the door she said : `` Girls , if you have been at this all the afternoon , I think you might be excused from study hour . '' Then to Polly she added : `` I 'll send tea to the reception-room at once . '' Of course Uncle Roddy insisted on `` the companies '' joining them for tea . Miss Porter had to decline the invitation on account of a special class at 4:30 , but Betty and Lois accepted with pleasure . After they were comfortably settled in the reception-room , Uncle Roddy asked : `` Miss Farwell , are you , by any chance , related to Doctor Walter Farwell ? '' `` I should think so , '' laughed Lois . `` I 'm his daughter .