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But Fleda was stronger now , and bore it all with her usual patient submission At length , by degrees , the people dropped in and filled the cars , and they set off . `` How early do you suppose we shall reach Greenfield ? '' said Fleda . `` Why , we ought to get there between nine and ten o'clock , I should think , '' said her companion . `` I hope the snow will hold up till we get there . '' Fleda thought it a hope very unlikely to be fulfilled . There were as yet no snow-flakes to be seen near by , but , at a little distance , the low clouds seemed already to enshroud every clump of trees , and put a mist about every hill .