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You are a good business man, and I want you to do something for me." "I a good business man?" said Dinney, grinning from ear to ear. "I should say! What's your business, Miss?" And having said this, he doubled up with droll laughter. "Don't!" said Gloria, laying her hand beseechingly upon him. "I am really in earnest."
I can see Rose and Hunkie at one of the windows and Sal coming down the stairs. 'Miss Districk, you're there, too. And Dinney, don't you see, is playing on the grass!" Mary Winship laughed a sweet, indulgent laugh. "Yes, I see all of it, Gloria, just as you do." She was gazing with the eyes of faith at the small beginning of Gloria's model tenement house.
It was more as if she had recently read a story full of pathos, whose chief characters were named Hunkie and Dinney, and whose background was a dreary street. She would tell the story to the District Nurse and perhaps evoke a sequel to it from her. "Dear Miss Winship: My uncle and aunt spirited me away the next day, and here I am in this 'Undiscovered Country'! Do you mind if I write you?
"But Rose is so careful of it, and Dinney is so insistent that it shall have everything it needs." Then she turned to Gloria. "Now sit down and make yourself comfortable, and wait for me. You are not fit to go around with me now. Rose will be here in a little while, doubtless." Gloria dropped into a chair. Left to herself, she looked around the plain little room.
I would not have come now, but the doctor put his foot down. I suppose I was worn out. "My dear, if I loved anyone very much I should say to her: 'Never be a District Nurse! It's so terribly hard on the heart-strings. "There is another Dinney on Pleasant Street, but his name is Straps. I don't know why, unless because of his one suspender, and then it ought to be Strap.
Then he took Hunkie into his arms and turned away with him as the door opened and a young girl entered. It was Rose. It seemed somehow to Dinney as though a sweet peace filled the room now that his mother's hard-drawn breath was no longer there. He looked through the window and hugged Hunkie close. He was his baby sure, now.
He looks like Dinney, but his 'baby' he leads by the elbow instead of drags in a cart. The baby of Straps is very old and blind, the shoestrings he sells on the corner are very poor ones, but when you need shoestrings I wish you would buy those. Din I mean Straps leads him back and forth and loves him. There doesn't seem any reason in all the world why he should or could but he does.
She ain't no doctor-woman." This from Dinney, who had the advantage of early acquaintance. "She's on'y a cuttin' roun' de street. Youse better not be smudgin' up her dress, Carrots gwan off, now! All o' youse gwan an' let de lady 'lone. Me 'n' Hunkie's de on'y ones as she wants roun'." Dinney and Hunkie escorted Gloria to the end of the street and back.
They now passed up the stairway, and as they came to the gap in the railing that had been the ruin of poor Sal, the nurse paused with a look of anxiety sweeping over her face. "It mustn't be left in that way," she said in dismay. Then she called, "Dinney! Is Dinney down there?" as she looked down the stairway. "Someone tell Dinney to bring me a rope clothesline will do."
The ceiling in Dinney's room came down once before his mother died, and it just missed her. It would have killed her then if it had hit her. It nearly killed Dinney, but he's tough." "They will mend the stair railing!" Gloria cried. Rose's face hardened, and she looked down and pressed her lips against the baby's forehead. It was as though the girl, Gloria, beside her was reaching too far.
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