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[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

The knock on Colin's door is loud and ominous.

- that doesn't matter much, however, as Mary marches in immediately after knocking and folds her hands neatly over her lap.

"Good morning, Colin."

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[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

"I do not think you can become a native of anything," Mary says, and shrugs, a little.

"Native means you have to be born so - as you are born a girl or a boy."

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"I have become well. A little. I thought that was something you had to be born to." He is not certain.

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"Lots of people become well and ill and all different things," Mary protests. "I was not so very well 'till I came here - and your mother was well, and then became ill - and both my parents were well, until they caught the cholera, and then they were not."