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Notes for #4 The Mysterious Visitor © 1954, 2003
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5	She (Trixie) was a sturdy girl of thirteen with short sandy curls and round blue eyes. She (Honey) had earned her nickname because of her golden-brown hair, and she had wide hazel eyes. Although they were the same age, Honey was taller and slimmer than Trixie.
7	They (B.W.G.s) traveled to and from school by bus. The Manor House, which was the name of the Wheelers' huge estate, included acres of rolling lawn and woodlands, a big lake, and a stable of horses. It formed the western boundary of the Beldens' Crabapple Farm, which nestled down in a hollow.
8 - 9	Trixie: "Next to you, Honey, she's (Diana Lynch) the prettiest girl in our class. She doesn't get very good marks, but neither do I. She's got two sets of twins for brothers and sisters, and her father made a million dollars a couple of years ago. They have a huge place that's as gorgeous as yours, high up on a hill that's even higher than your hill, with a marvelous view of the river."
9	Trixie: "When the Lynches were poor and lived in a nice but rather crowded apartment on Main Street, she used to invite me home for lunch an awful lot. Her mother is a wonderful cook."
10	Honey: "As for the dusting-well, I've seen you do it, Trixie. A lick and a promise is the only way to describe it that chore of yours. If you find a spot you can't blow off a table top, you put something on top of it."
11	Honey's parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had been born rich. Kindhearted Honey always seemed to know when people were unhappy.
12	She (Di) had shiny, blue-black hair that flowed around her slim shoulders, and violet eyes fringed with thick curly lashes. She was so pretty that she was always the heroine in the grade school plays although she usually got her lines and words mixed up. Brian was sixteen, a year older than Jim, but they were both juniors because Jim had skipped a grade.
15	Honey: "You (Di) won't need any clothes. We're just about the same size.
25	The clubhouse was just one big room now with a dirt floor. The boys planned to partition off one end of it and line the walls in that section with shelves. Then they were going to make tables and benches for the conference room.
26	A narrow but thickly wooded section separated it (the clubhouse) from Glen Road, and only if you knew it was there could you see it from the veranda of the big house. Trixie: "You sound like Di Lynch when she has stage fright. I remember in one school play, when she was not much older than you, Bobby, she called Benedict Arnold, Arnold Benedict from beginning to end."
28	One thing she (Trixie) hadn't liked about entering junior high was that none of the girls wore jeans to school any more.
32	Diana: "I don't know how to ride."
38	Trixie: "Mr. Lynch is one of the kindest men who ever lived. He's big and fat in a jolly way, and so generous. Mrs. Lynch is darling, too. She used to be awfully jolly."
39	Trixie: "The twins eat in their big nursery."
41	Miss Trask: "Mrs. Wheeler doesn't want Honey to grow up too fast. We want her to be a tomboy like you, Trixie, for as long as possible."
49	Di: "Your mother (Honey) is my mother's very own ideal."
50	Di: "He's (Uncle Monty) Mother's long lost brother who left home to make his fortune when she was just a baby."
54	Trixie: "With that haircut of his, Mart can go as an escaped convict. What are you going as Jim?" Jim: "Dracula. It's a known fact that all vampires have red hair." Trixie: "I'm going to wear the pirate's costume Mart wore at the school masquerade last year." Honey: "I think I'll go as Captain John Silver. Brian, our future doctor is going as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Di can't decide whether to go as Queen Elizabeth or a character out of one of Jane Austen's novels." Trixie: "It would be a lot simpler if we all went in our BWG shirts over our jeans, with masks and wigs."
57	Di: "He's (Uncle Monty) used to running things. He was one of the first settlers in the southwest and practically made Arizona the great state it is today. Tucson would be just a ghost city if it weren't for Uncle Monty."
68	Trixie: "How are you getting on with Patch's training? When do you have time for it anyway?" Jim: "Early in the morning and late in the evening. Patch has learned a lot. He obeys the commands Sit, Lie, and Heel."
70	Jim: "He's pretty good about retrieving. But Tom says he'll never point."
79	Di: "Uncle Monty is (a liar). He told us that he made a lot of money but he lost it all because he's been sick for the past ten years. But if you could see him eat, you'd know that he's as healthy as an ox. If you want my candied opinion —"
84	Regan: "Ever since you (Trixie) arrived on the scene, they should have changed the name from Manor House to the Madhouse!"
89	Honey who, as secretary of the club, had been checking off names on the list.
90	Di: "Our terrace is enclosed. It's really more of an outdoor living-room which runs all along one side of the house."
92	Trixie: "Moms always pays me twenty-five cents an hour when I do (take care of Bobby), and I get an allowance of a dollar a week too."
95	Honey: "You get very high marks in English Trixie."
98	Di: "A lot of the kids who are coming don't know how to dance. I don't myself."
108	Trixie: "We know that Aunt Alicia looks like our grandfather and Moms looks like our grandmother."
110	Mart: "My earliest recollection is my third birthday party when Trix fell into my cake. My mental picture of her at that time…her eyelashes were plastered with pink frosting." Trixie: " My earliest recollection is your fourth birthday party when you scorched your eyelashes trying to blow out all the candles on your cake at once."
130	Tom: "Webster's the cop who used to be on duty in front of the grade school." ('Spider' Webster was one of the most popular policemen in town.) "He's on duty now. On the outskirts of town where Main Street merges with the main highway. He says Hawthorne Street is the worst street in town. Most people call it Skid Row. Nothing but ramshackle house where bums live when they're not in jail."
137	Trixie: "Di told me herself that those China birds in Mr. Lynch's study are so rare that a museum offered her mother thousands of dollars for the collection."
141	Tom: "Mr. Wheeler said we could have the old gatehouse."
148	Trixie: "I wish you (Jim) and Honey had never decided to read David Copperfield together."
150	Jim: (talking about the material the curtains are made of) "Monk's cloth. It's expensive, but it's just exactly what we want. It's a neutral shade and it wears forever."
154	Di was not on the bus, but there was nothing unusual about that. As often as not, she traveled to and from school in the limousine.
156	Miss Golden - Trixie's math instructor
157	Hawthorne Street - When she (Trixie) left Main Street and turned into the alley that led to it, she slowed to a walk. It was a narrow, winding alley, with sidewalks that were lined on both sides by two-story houses that were rickety.
158	The people who were sitting on the stoops and the sagging porches were strange-looking. The women, in their bright shawls and full skirts, looked like gypsies, and the men, when they moved at all, shuffled as though their feet hurt. Suddenly the narrow alley ended and before her lay a long straight street. They (the houses) were no worse than the dilapidated buildings in the alley, but there was something evil about them. The accumulated dirt of years clung to them.
160	As she (Trixie) stared at his (Olyfant's) hands she realized with a start that the book of matches he was holding were exactly like those which Harrison had used when he lighted the candles in the dining-room at Di's party. The flap was royal blue with "The Lynches" printed on it in big, sprawling gold letters.
166	Mart: "She (Moms) and her prize mums are at the Garden Club show. Which means that you owe me a buck. Seventy-five cents for the taxi, and a quarter for taking care of Bobby."
167	Bobby: "I squoozed it my own self too." On every finger was a bandage. "I cutted myself with that great big kitchen knife but I didn't cry at all."
175	It (Di's bedroom) was done in royal blue and gold. There were twin beds in it, a huge sofa, two comfortable chairs, a desk, and even a loveseat. The gold silk curtains matched the bedspreads which were monogrammed in royal blue.
182	Di: "Dad just can't stand having Uncle Monty around any longer. As soon as he can sell some bonds, he's going to give him fifty thousand dollars." Trixie: "When will your father sell those bonds." Di: "I don't know. I guess it depends on what the stock market does."
190	Di: "I like your room much better. It's so small and cozy with that lovely hooked rug your grandmother made that has all the colors of the rainbow it it, and the twin maple beds with their nice unbleached muslin spreads."
197	Trixie: "If you'll notice the signature of the artist, you'll see that he is one of the most famous portrait painters in America. I happen to know about him because he painted Mrs. Wheeler's portrait."
200	They (Di and Trixie) had breakfast in the sunny nursery with the twins who, Trixie decided, were almost as cute and mischievous as Bobby.
202	Trixie: "It's a long walk to the bus stop at the end of your driveway." "Almost a mile," he (Mr. Lynch) agreed.
205	Di: "When my grandparents died, the welfare people put my mother in a foster home. She used her foster parents' last name until she married Dad. So, as far as my real uncle knew, she vanished while she was still a baby."
207	Mart: "What birds?" Di: "The China ones in the study. It's a very valuable collection, but each bird alone is worth about a thousand dollars."
208	Mart: "Tom taught Brian and me how to fish and shoot. I can't remember when I didn't know that he had a photographic memory."
211	Honey: "I can't imagine why Celia has her heart set on the clubhouse. It's going to cost them an awful lot of money to put a bathroom and a kitchen in the gatehouse. Not to mention laying floors." Jim: "The main reason is because it's on our property. If they set up housekeeping in the village, they'll lose their jobs because Dad and Mother have to have a maid and a chauffeur who live on the premises."
221	Trixie: "Why, it's as light as day outdoors." Di: "It's the floodlights. We usually leave them on until the last car has been put away for the night."
224	Harrison's rooms were in the back of the house and overlooked the garage.
226	… a pistol license. In that space on the permit the name Tilney Britten had been neatly typed.
232	Mart: "Unless it's his night off, Spider Webster will be on duty."
241	Mart: "Inside the trailer is a wire recording machine. It's this guy's confession that he's an imposter, a kidnapper, and …"
242	Sgt. Molinson: "Now I know who you are. Trixie Belden! You were one of the kids who helped us catch those big-time pickpockets last August."
244	Lieutenant: "The sergeant and I will cope with Mr. Britten."
246	Sgt. Molinson: "Shall I dump them in the river, take them home, or give them badges?"
248	Mart: "You all know Ty Scott - the guy I was supposed to spend last night with. The recording machine belongs to him. It's his hobby. He belongs to a club and the members send each other records."
252	Di: "She (Mother) fired Harrison and the nurses, and I'm going to get paid for helping her take care of the twins."
253	Di: "Dad is giving you and Trixie the red trailer. And won't it make a wonderful clubhouse for the Bob-Whites?" Trixie: "We can't accept it either, can we, Mart?" Mart: "No. But we can give it to Tom." Di: "In that little black notebook which Trixie found in Monty's pocket the police discovered the name and address of my real uncle. He has a huge dude ranch out in Arizona, and he's going to fly east as soon as he can."
254	Mart: "We simply make a deal. We keep our clubhouse and he (Tom) parks the Robin on that plot of land Honey was telling us about." Honey: "The ideal spot for the Robin is that clearing in the woods on the hill behind the stable."
257	Di: "Uncle Monty has invited us all to spend the Christmas holidays at his ranch."