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`` What note ? '' Aunt Carrie inquired . `` You have n't told us of that . '' `` I was over there before noon , '' said Florence , `` and Aunt Julia gave me a quarter and said she 'd write a note for me to take to Noble Dill 's house when he came home for lunch , and give it to him . She kind of slipped it to me , because grandpa came in there , pokin ' around , while she was just finishin ' writin ' it . She did n't put any envelope on it even , and she never said a single thing to _ me _ about its bein ' private or my not readin ' it if I wanted to , or anything . '' `` Of course you did n't , '' said Aunt Carrie .