Word: griselda
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...Griselda, the witch who lives in the Memorial Hall bell tower, stretched her arms after a long sleep and decided it was time for a trial spin on her broomstick to get in shape for Halloween. Skirting Lowell House, a chance breeze blew her into an open window. As she recovered her balance, a distraught young man leaped to his feet, hastily brushing la little pile of dirt under the rug with his hand...
...Katie," he sobbed, throwing himself upon the startled Griselda, "you've come back. Life's been miserable all year. They won't even give us brooms or." He broke off, abashed, as he got a better look at the witch. "Excuse me, Madame," he blurted with a polite little bow, "you look just like the maid we had last year, and I thought maybe well, they have endowments for ice-cream and other things, I though that just maybe." He broke down again, and went back to brushing the rug with his hand. Here and there a tear splattered...
Being a particularly empathetic witch, Griselda sank into a blue study, clashing perhaps with the room's green decor, but infinitely in harmony with the young man's misery...
...slumped down and started dusting the phonograph with the nub of a finger or two. Griselda sighed and went over to the door...
...Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife Edith, no "Patient Griselda," intervened. Edith was a childhood friend of Teddy's and a lifelong love. Her standards were Victorian, but she knew the business of being mother and running a household, and when she spoke up, Teddy knew the moment for silence had come...