Her secret kept her in a way apart from people. And she had been genu-inely fond of Dora Bunner and remembered her as a symbol of her owngay carefree days at school. Anyway, on an impulse, she answered Dora’sletter in person. And very surprised Dora must have been! She’d writtento Letitia and the sister who turned up in answer to her letter was Char-lotte. There was never any question of pretending to be Letitia to Dora.
Dora was one of the few old friends who had been admitted to see Char-lotte in her lonely and unhappy days.
“And because she knew that Dora would look at the matter in exactlythe same way as she did herself, she told Dora what she had done. Doraapproved wholeheartedly. In her confused muddle- headed mind itseemed only right that dear Lotty should not be done out of her inherit-ance by Letty’s untimely death. Lotty deserved a reward for all the patientsuffering she had borne so bravely. It would have been most unfair if allthat money should have gone to somebody nobody had ever heard of.
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