1 result for (book:tes2 AND session:65 AND stemmed:answer)
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(This session was unscheduled. Today we had looked at a house in the country just outside Elmira. It had caught our fancy to some degree and was possibly within our ability to buy, if we could take the word of friends of ours. The house belonged to an artist and schoolteacher who had left town for good; Jane had met him at the gallery, I had not. The house offered privacy but seemed to raise as many questions as it answered, one of them being that it was situated on a hillside and was accessible only by a very steep dirt road that was not maintained by either state or county.
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I am avoiding a direct answer immediately, and talking around the bush for a few moments for my own reasons, but I will not put you off. I am glad that you noticed that my prediction concerning a scandal was no idle one, and I would seriously recommend that you avoid any business transactions or personal transactions of any kind with Mr. Marvin, who I believe owns a schoolhouse which you were looking at this afternoon.
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(The last two sentences immediately answered the thought I had in mind.)
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(As usual, Jane’s questions are in italics, the board’s answers in roman.)
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(Jane reports that she did not speak her questions aloud. Usually she received the answer within before the board spelled it out. She did not hear the answer within yet did know what the answer would be. She has no opinion concerning the above material; I have inserted it into the record out of curiosity, and on the off chance that it might come into future use.)