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"Do you" he answered, amused at her tone, "perhaps it is; but why should I not as well as your friends here?" indicating the old ladies. "Ah, we like it very much," said the three, clicking their snuff-boxes. "You, too, play?" he asked me. "Miss Cassy don't play," answered the three, looking at me over their spectacles. "Miss Verry's sun puts out her fire."
"It must be about eleven," Temperance replied; but it was nearly four. She dozed again, but, opening her eyes presently, made a motion toward the window. "There's no help for it," muttered Temperance, "she must go." I understood her, and put my arm under Verry's neck to raise her. Temperance wrapped the quilt round her, and we carried her to the window.
I saw Verry's grimace when her eyes fell on it, and could not help saying, "I hope Lois's essays are better than her taste in dress." "She is an idiot in colors; but she admires what I wear so much that she fancies the same must become her." "As they become you?" "I make a study of dress an anomaly must. It may be wicked, but what can I do? I love to look well."
The light revealed a new expression in Verry's face an unsettled, dispossessed look; her brows were knitted, yet she smiled over and over again, while she seemed hardly aware that she was eating like an ordinary mortal. The imp Fanny tried experiments with her, by offering the same dishes repeatedly, till her plate was piled high with food she did not taste.
But I have had fears respecting her health." Outside the door I met Temperance, with a clothes-basket. "Oh ho!" she said, "you are going the rounds. Verry's room beats all possessed, don't it? It is cleaned spick and span every three months. She calls it inaugurating the seasons. She is as queer as Dick's hatband. Have you any fine things to do up?"
"I have had nothing to do all my life," she answered, carefully knotting Verry's hair, "but to be curious. I never found out much, though, till lately"; and she cast her eyes in my direction. "Put her out, Cassandra," said Verry, "if you like to touch her." "I'll sweep the hearth, if you please, first," Fanny answered. "I am a good drudge, you know. Good-night, ladies."
I sat by the window an hour, looking over the water, my thoughts drifting through a golden haze, and then went up to my room and looked out again. If I turned my eyes inside the walls, I was aware of the yearning, yawning empty void within me, which I did not like. I sauntered into Verry's room, to see if any clouds were coming up from the north. There were none.
I know that I am needed; but you mustn't say a word about pay I can't stand it, I have had too much affliction to be pestered about wages." Verry hugged her, and Temperance shed the honestest tears of the day then, she was so gratified at Verry's fondness.
The last was to arrange some flowers I had ordered in Milford. I kept a bunch of them in reserve for Verry's plate; for we were to have a supper, at father's request, who thought it would be less tiresome to feed the guests than to talk to them. Verry did not know this, though she had asked several times why we were all so busy. It was near seven when I went upstairs to find her.
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