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Luisa and Mrs O’Donnell come to the house on Saturday - Luisa to look after James and Aimee and William, and Mrs O’Donnell because a housekeeper’s work is never done when the house and family are the size of the Godwins’ - and there is also a gardener, Mr West, who takes care of the bushes and trees in front of the house and in the courtyard. Sometimes Mrs Godwin will entertain friends and society ladies and occasionally the wives of Mr Godwin’s business partners at the house, and on those days, the little Godwins are encouraged to stay out from underfoot. William does not consider himself a little Godwin any more, but Luisa is supposed to watch out for him as much as James and Aimee. Con always seems to have his own things to do, unless any of the society ladies bring their daughters, and on those occasions he tries to work himself into any conversation, flirting with them the same way he flirts with Luisa. Sometimes Mrs Godwin tolerates this, and sometimes she has to ask him politely but firmly to leave the ladies alone.

Today she is out of the house, and Mr Godwin is off seeing to business, and Julia has a surprise for James – two dollars and the promise of a moving picture about pirates showing downtown.

( This is a secret, she whispers to him. )

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today's quickie research: top movies in 1919, serials. (i totally winged it about the streetcar, the movie theater, and the soda fountain.) the masked rider and the millionaire pirate do exist, or did in 1919.