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She answered Rose-Marie's knock with a cheery word, but, when the girl entered the room, she saw that the Superintendent's kind eyes were troubled. "What's the matter?" she questioned, forgetting, for a moment, the business of which she had been so full. "What's the matter? You look ever so worried!" The Superintendent's tired face broke into a smile.
"I'll say that she has!" he replied, and his words, though slangy, were very tender. "I'll say that she has!" And then "Are we going back to the little town, Rose-Marie," he questioned. "Are we going back to the little town to be married?" The blush had died from Rose-Marie's face, leaving it just faintly flushed. The eyes that she raised to the Young Doctor's eyes were like warm stars.
"The lady's name seemed to be something in the nature of a sacred trust to him. But his big dark eyes were full of the spirit that she'd given him. And his funny little crooked mouth was " He paused, suddenly, his gaze fixed upon Rose-Marie. "What's the matter?" he queried. "What's the matter? You look as if somebody'd just left you a million dollars!" Rose-Marie's face was flushed and radiant.
I'd no more think of letting you brush up against the sort of facts I'm facing, than I would " Rose-Marie's cheeks were flushed, her eyes were bright, as she interrupted. "Somehow," she said, "I can't think that you and my aunts are quite right about shielding me about keeping me from brushing up against life, and the real facts of life. It seems to me that there's only one way to develop really.
"Whoever told you," she questioned, "that it's not wrong to hurt an animal, so long as it can't fight back?" The boy eyed her strangely. Rose-Marie could almost detect a gleam of latent interest in his dark eyes. And then, as if he had gained a sort of confidence in her, he answered. "Nobody never told me," he said gruffly. "But I know." The kitten against Rose-Marie's breast cried piteously.
Rose-Marie's cheeks were flushed with a very real resentment, as she interrupted the girl's flow of half-articulate speech. "Ella," she said, and her words, too, came rapidly, "you know that you're not being fair you know it! I've never held apart from you in any way. Oh, I realize that we've been brought up in different surroundings.
"Who has been filling your head with lies? You never thought of that yourself, Ella I know you never thought of that yourself!" Ella's eyes met Rose-Marie's angry glance. Her words, when she spoke, came rapidly almost tumbled over each other. It was as if some class-resentment, long repressed, were breaking its bounds.
The noontime sunshine slanted across the table dancing on the silver, touching softly Rose-Marie's curls, finding an answering sparkle in the Young Doctor's smile. And silence the warm silence of happiness lay over them all. It was the Young Doctor who spoke first. "Just about a month ago, it was," he said reflectively, "that I saw Lily for the first time. And now" he paused teasingly "and now "
Rose-Marie's first impression of him was one of extreme, almost offensive neatness of sleek hair, that looked like patent leather, and of highly polished brown shoes. She saw that his blue and white striped collar was speckless, that his blue tie was obviously new, that his trousers were creased to an almost dangerous edge.
But in Rose-Marie's mind, the odours poignant though they were took second place to the sounds. Never, she told herself, had she imagined that so many different sorts of noises could exist in the same place at one and the same time. There were the cries and sobs of little children, the moans of sickness, the thuds of falling furniture and the crashes of breaking crockery.
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