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You have only one more visit to make , and then I will come and kidnap my own daughter and carry her off with me for a Christmas present . '' `` What a dear , wise father I 've got , '' mused Patty , after reading this letter , `` and how he understands everything , even without my telling him . I _ will _ try not to grow heedless and rattle-pated , though it 's hard to be any other way in this house . '' One morning in August , Mrs. Barlow said to her husband , `` Ted , you know the Carletons are coming this afternoon to stay several days , and I want you to go over to the three o'clock train to meet them . Do n't forget it , will you ? And you 'll have to engage a stage to bring them over , for there 'll be Mr. and Mrs. Carleton and four children , and perhaps a nurse . I do n't know where we 're going to put them all to sleep , but we must stow them away somehow .