"I shall not keep them out of my house if they choose to come to it.

No member of my family ever did that.

There is the house, and they are free to enter it, but they shall not find me there.

If there was any reason to believe that everything was dropped and done with, I would be as glad to see him as anybody could be, but I knew from his letter just what he was going to say when he came, and as things have turned out, I see that it was all worse than I expected.

He and Roberta March were both coming, and they thought that together they could talk me down, and make me forgive and be happy, and all that stuff.