Ellen is to arrive twenty-four hours after receiving the telegram. Now, the question is who will pick her up across the river in Jersey City? The family looks at the predicament as just another instance where Ellen has caused them an inconvenience. Newland offers to pick her up. He tells his wife that his trip has been canceled.
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