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And Ranny said he thought he could afford it in two years . Meanwhile the house would n't run away . It would wait two years . And as if it had been waiting for him , motionless , from all eternity , the house , with its allurements and solicitations , caught him before six o'clock on the evening of that very day . Ranny 's mother , as if she had known what the house was after , played into its hands . Attracted by the Prospectus and the picture , she walked over to Southfields directly after tea . She looked at the house and fell in love with it at first sight .