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"And so women can really like one another without jealousy?" he questioned, laughing. "What is there to be jealous of?" she retorted quickly. "For after all one is one's self, you know, and not another. Gerty is beautiful and I am not, but her loveliness is as keen a delight to me as it is to her keener, I think, for she is sometimes bored with it and I never am.
"Then, if it's any interest to you to know it," pursued Gerty, with a burst of confidence, "I'd walk across Brooklyn Bridge, every step of the way, on my knees for Laura. That's because I believe in her," she wound up emphatically, "and because, too, I don't happen to believe much in anybody else." "So you know her well?"
"I think you're right," she admitted at last, "but why? Why? What on earth has he ever got from life?" "He has got a wife," he retorted, with his genial irony. "Well, I suppose he congratulates himself that he hasn't two," was her flippant rejoinder. Kemper laughed shortly. "I'm not sure that she doesn't equal a good half dozen." "And yet he is happy," said Gerty thoughtfully.
I wish I did not think so, for I shall have many a longing after the old home." "But what will become of your mother and grandfather if this house is torn down?" "It is not easy to tell, Gerty, what will become of any of us by that time; but, if there is any necessity for their moving, I hope I shall be able to provide a better house than this for them." "You won't be here, Willie."
Then his eyes blinked rapidly and he fell back with merely a muttered protest, for Gerty shone, at the instant, with a beauty which neither he nor Adams had ever seen in her before. The wonderful child quality softened her look, and they watched her soul bloom in her face like a closed flower that expands in sunlight.
Nan Grant had no babies; and being a very active woman, with but a poor opinion of children's services, she never tried to find employment for Gerty, much better satisfied for her to keep out of her sight; so that, except her daily errand for the milk, Gerty was always idle a fruitful source of unhappiness and discontent.
"I love the stars all of them," said Gertrude; "but my own star I love the best." "Which do you call yours?" "That splendid one over the church-steeple; it shines into my room every night, and looks me in the face. I think Uncle True lights it every night. I always feel as if he were smiling up there, and saying, 'See, Gerty, I'm lighting the lamp for you. Dear Uncle True!
Then I'll send him some beauties;" and he turned away to wait upon another customer, so quick that Gerty thought he did not see how the colour came into her face and the tears into her eyes. But he did see, and that was the reason he turned away so quickly. True had an excellent appetite, enjoyed and praised the dinner exceedingly, and, after eating heartily of it, fell asleep in his chair.
Still it was a kind of language between us. It couldn't be? No, Gerty they called her. Might be false name however like my name and the address Dolphin's barn a blind. Her maiden name was Jemina Brown And she lived with her mother in Irishtown. Place made me think of that I suppose. All tarred with the same brush Wiping pens in their stockings. But the ball rolled down to her as if it understood.
But it was with a great gentleness that he came forward to her, and took both of her trembling hands, and said, "Gerty, you do not think that I have come to be angry with you not that!" He could not but see with those anxious, pained, tender eyes of his that she was very pale; and her heart was now beating so fast after the first shock of fright that for a second or two she could not answer him.
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