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Updated: June 16, 2025
Lily and Ella and Bennie Rose-Marie loved them, all three. But Jim Volsky was the unsolvable problem the one that she tried to push to the back of her mind, to avoid. Mrs. Volsky and Pa she gave up as nearly hopeless she kept, as much as possible, out of Pa's way, and Mrs. Volsky could only be helped in the attaining of creature comforts her spirit seemed dead!
Jim, his gaze still upon her face, shrugged his shoulders. But before he could answer Ella had come a step closer to Rose-Marie. Her eyes were flashing. "Jim," she said, "ain't got any love or kindness or consideration in him! Jim thinks that Lily ain't got any more feelin's than a puppy dog 'cause she can't answer back.
The Young Doctor's understanding glance was on the girl's down-bent face. After a moment he spoke. "Are you ever sorry that you left the home town, Miss Rose-Marie?" he questioned. Rose-Marie looked at him, for a moment, to see whether he was serious. And then, as no flicker of mirth stirred his mouth, she answered. "Sometimes I'm homesick," she said. "Usually after the lights are out, at night.
Say, kid," he leaned still closer, "I'm strong fer yer when yer cheeks get all pink-like. I'm strong fer yer any time a-tall!" Rose-Marie was more genuinely shocked than she had ever been in her life. The flush receded slowly from her face. "You'd like me to be more interested in clothes than in Bible Classes!" she said slowly.
But Jim insisted upon intruding upon her moments in the flat; he monopolized conversations, and asked impertinent questions, and stared. More than once he had offered to "walk her home" as she was leaving; more than once he had thrust himself menacingly across her path. But she had managed, neatly, to avoid him. Rose-Marie was afraid of Jim.
Jim, standing in the center of the room, was like a statue only his haunted eyes were alive. The Young Doctor, glancing from face to face, spoke suddenly to Rose-Marie. "I hate to ask you," he said simply, "but you seem to be the only one who hasn't gone to pieces. Will you come in here with me?" Rose-Marie nodded, and she spoke, very softly.
You're young and don't try to hush me up good-looking. And yet well, you're such an antagonistic person. From the very first you've laughed at Rose-Marie and she was quite ready to adore you when she arrived. How do I know? Oh, I could tell! Take the child seriously, Billy Blanchard, before she actually begins to dislike you!"
Well she knew the conditions under which a girl of Ella's financial status stops working she had heard many such cases discussed, with an amazing frankness, during her short stay at the Settlement House. And Jim Jim with his sleek, patent-leather hair, and his rat-like face Jim did his work at night! Rose-Marie could not suppress the shudder that ran over her.
And when she had said, haltingly, in reference to the hair "I'll dry it for you, Miss Rose-Marie!" Rose-Marie could have wept with happiness. It was the first time that she had ever heard Ella offer to do anything for her mother. Jim coming in as she was about to leave had added to Rose-Marie's weariness.
As she told of Lily the Superintendent's kind eyes filled with tears, and her lips quivered. "Oh," she breathed, "if only something could be done for her if only something could be done! Billy Blanchard must see her at once he's done marvellous things with the crippled children of the neighbourhood!" With a feeling of sudden confidence Rose-Marie smiled.
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