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`` I 'm not going to see a child turned over to a hired girl all day and me with a big house and no baby and a daughter about to marry and leave me and a houseful of help , if I needed it , which thank Heavens I do n't . '' She put her lips together sternly , and , `` Not a word , Amos Adams , '' she said to Amos , who had not opened his mouth . `` Not another word . Kenyon will be home at six o'clock . '' She put the child into the Doctor 's submissive arms -- helped her daughter into the buggy , and when she had climbed in herself , she glared triumphantly over her glasses and above her Roman nose , as she said : `` Now , Amos -- have some sense . Doctor , -- go on . '' And in a moment the buggy was spinning up the hill toward the town .