uncommenting

Updated: May 19, 2025

She tore out the page, folded it, and put it for safe-keeping between the pages of her text-book on Logic. That afternoon she began work on it, running the long seams up on the machine with whirring rapidity, acutely aware of her mother's silent, uncommenting passage back and forth through the sewing-room.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Bent Twig