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`` I thought that was what you came here for . '' `` I did mean to , but Mrs. Waldron has been here , and I was interrupted . '' `` It is fully fifteen minutes since she left , Nellie . You might have written two or three pages already ; and you know that all manner of visitors will be coming in by noon . '' `` I was just thinking over something she told me . I 'll write presently . '' `` Mrs. Waldron is a woman who talks about everything and everybody .