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As so many of the small-boned women do, she grew plump. The plumpness then all looks fat because the bones aren't big enough to hold it. So she tended to be double-chinny and plump armed. She was never gross at all.

Miss Pedrick didn't seem to be aware of that. She dressed her up preposterously. She was really too dressy. It was never bad, it was just too, too. There was too much hat. She was too stylish. Among other things she once put on her an osprey plume - bird of paradise plume - which is very ostentatious, but it was elegant. It was that kind of thing that made Mrs. Smith look not quite suitable. They over-dressed her.

The Smiths in Albany had entertained a good deal, but they didn't entertain the way Governors had sometimes entertained in the past. They did the minimum of entertaining. They were very much liked and they were liked in political circles, but they didn't have formal dinners. They had the necessary receptions to the Legislature and to the judiciary and the regular New Year's reception to everybody. It was Al Smith who with his human eye had seen these orphans in the orphan asylum that backs up onto the grounds of the Executive Mansion. It just happens that the back yard of the orphan asylum backs up to the back of the Executive Mansion. There was a high board fence between them. He