And when I had got everything jammed in somehow, and my landlady and her maid had both sat on it while I locked it, I discovered I had packed a whole lot of things I wanted for Convocation at the very bottom.

I had to unlock the old thing and poke and dive into it for an hour before I fished out what I wanted.

I would get hold of something that felt like what I was looking for, and I'd yank it up, and it would be something else.

No, Anne, I did NOT swear." "I didn't say you did." "Well, you looked it.

But I admit my thoughts verged on the profane.