The person coming was Mary Jane. She went to the coffin, very soft, and kneeled down and looked in; then she put up her handkerchief, and I see she begun to cry, though I couldnāt hear her, and her back was to me. I slid out, and as I passed the dining-room I thought Iād make sure them watchers hadnāt seen me; so I looked through the crack, and everything was all right. They hadnāt stirred.
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