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Rose-Marie clutched the child tighter in her arms. "Get some one, at once," she ordered, "if you don't want her to die if you don't want to be a murderer!" But Jim had not heard her voice. He was sobbing, gustily. "I'm t'rough," he was sobbing, "t'rough! Oh God, fergive " It was then that the door opened. And Rose-Marie, raising eyes abrim with relief, saw that Ella and Mrs.
It was a surprisingly long speech for Mrs. Volsky. And some of it showed a certain reasoning power. Rose-Marie told herself, in all fairness, that if she were Mrs. Volsky she, too, might be inclined to ask "What's th' use?" She leaned forward, searching desperately in her mind for something to say. "Do you like me, Mrs. Volsky?" she questioned at last, "Do you like me?"
Blanchard," she said shortly, and could have bitten her tongue for saying it. The Young Doctor laughed with a boyish vigour. "I thought," he said annoyingly, "that you were a Christian, Miss Rose-Marie Thompson!" Rose-Marie felt a tide of quite definite anger rising in her heart. "I am a Christian!" she retorted.
Rose-Marie waited, for a moment, and then as Ella did not speak she got up from her place beside the suit-case, and going to the dividing door, opened it softly. The room was as she had left it. Mrs. Volsky was still bending above the tubs, Lily was standing in almost the same place in which she had been left.
Do not long for the hard, uncomfortable places on the other side of the garden wall!" Despite the Superintendent's expression despite the gentle tone of her voice, Rose-Marie felt a sudden desire to cry out against the irony of it all. She was so tired of being classed with the flowers!
"You said island?" she questioned. Rose-Marie laughed with a shade of embarrassment. "I didn't really mean to say island," she explained, "but well, you remember what Dr. Blanchard told us, once, about the little bugs that fastened together first one and then another until there were billions? And how, at last, they made an island?" She paused and, at their nods of assent, went on.
"Lily's my kid sister," he said, and, miracle of miracles, his voice held a note of tenderness. "Say Miss, I'm sorry I hurt th' cat." With a sudden feeling of warmth Rose-Marie moved just a fraction of an inch closer to the boy.
The Young Doctor, glancing up from his soup, felt a sudden desire to tease. Rose-Marie, with her cheeks all flushed, made a startlingly colourful, extremely young picture. "You're blushing!" he told her accusingly. "You're blushing!" Rose-Marie, feeling the blushes creep still higher, knew a rude impulse to slap the Young Doctor.
"Not as far as I've heard of, there ain't nobody else," she sobbed. "I don't know much about him, Miss Rose-Marie. Jim gimme a knockdown ter him, one night, in a dance-hall. I thought he was all right Jim said he was ... An' he said he loved me, an'" wildly "I love him, too! An' I hate it all, here, except Lily " Rose-Marie, thinking rapidly, seized her advantage.
"How d' you know," she demanded passionately, "that I didn't think of that myself? How do you know? You're th' only one, I s'pose," her tone was suddenly mocking, "that knows how t' think! No" as Rose-Marie started to interrupt "don't try t' pull any alibi on me! I know th' way you Settlement House ladies" she accented the word "feel about us.
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