`` That 's a nice way to speak of your great-grandmother , '' said Felicity severely . `` How does The Family Guide say you ought to speak of your great-grandma , sweet one ? '' asked Dan . `` There is one thing about it that puzzles me , '' remarked Cecily . `` She calls herself a GRATEFUL widow . Now , what was she grateful for ? '' `` Because she was rid of him at last , '' said graceless Dan . `` Oh , it could n't have been that , '' protested Cecily seriously . `` I 've always heard that Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother were very much attached to each other . '' `` Maybe , then , it means she was grateful that she 'd had him as long as she did , '' suggested Peter . `` She was grateful to him because he had been so kind to her in life , I think , '' said Felicity . `` What is a ` distressed relict ' ? '' asked Felix . '' ` Relict ' is a word I hate , '' said the Story Girl . `` It sounds so much like relic . Relict means just the same as widow , only a man can be a relict , too . '' `` Great-Grandmother seemed to run short of rhymes at the last of the epitaph , '' commented Dan . `` Finding rhymes is n't as easy as you might think , '' avowed Peter , out of his own experience . `` I think Grandmother King intended the last of the epitaph to be in blank verse , '' said Felicity with dignity . There was still only a sprinkling of people in the church when we went in and took our places in the old-fashioned , square King pew .
We had just got comfortably settled when Felicity said XXXXX an agitated whisper , `` Here is Peg Bowen ! ''
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