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For each time when they come to her aid she says to herself, “If they did not love me they would not help me.” At the same time however this help is held up to the father, for it is the mother who asks for the assistance, and the assistance is always in some way held up against the father. This is also a type of revenge, however, for the mother is now in a stronger position, after having been kept in an inferior one for nearly a lifetime.

G-r-a-n-o-l-d-y. A connection with St. Ambrose, and the church. (Long pause.) Church records kept in a vault in the basement. (Long pause.) Later, much later, a track of some kind was built very near by the church property. For a while in later years, the house where you lived had front rooms converted into a barber shop. Perhaps from 1870 to 1890.

Later still, a dress shop, and then a restaurant, as the neighborhood deteriorated. Then, all new buildings. You were portly. The church was near the water, and it was visited on occasion by sailors. (Many pauses, some of them long. Jane’s eyes were closed and she was very restless.)

Before this it was more elegant, and when it was the ships came in further to the north to dock. As shipping increased the docks moved southward to take in the area near the church.