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`` It 's a good habit for a wife to cultivate , '' returned Miss Chris , shaking the raisins together . `` If my poor father stayed out until four o'clock in the morning he found my mother up and dressed when he came in . '' `` I should say it was ` poor ' grandmamma , '' commented Eugenia drily . `` But Dudley wo n't find me after midnight . '' Then she regarded Miss Chris affectionately . `` What a blessing that you did n't marry , Aunt Chris , '' she said . `` You 'd have prepared some man to merit damnation . ''