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The little party was unusual in walking; glances of uncomprehending pity were cast at them from victorias and landaus that rolled past. Even the convalescent British soldiers facing each other in the clumsy drab cart drawn by humped bullocks, and marked Garrison Dispensary, stared at the black skirts so near the powder of the road.
"You have done wrong, Bébée, and you will not own it," said the few neighbors who ever spoke to her. Bébée looked at them with wistful, uncomprehending eyes. "I have done no wrong," she said gently, but no one believed her. A girl did not shut herself up and wane pale and thin for nothing, so they reasoned.
She was in a room warmed by a great white stove and dimly lighted by candles. Some one was pulling off her gloves and feeling her hands to make sure that they were not frost-bitten. She looked sleepily at a white coffee-pot standing on the table near the candles; then her eyes, still uncomprehending, rested on the face of the man who was loosening her hood, which was hard with rime and ice.
I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup, and a few verbs like sit, stand, and walk. But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.
Once the two girls were seated opposite each other, Alberta leaned forward and said earnestly: "I know that you must dislike me very, very much, Miss Harlowe, and I always supposed that I disliked you even more, but I have lately come to the conclusion that I admire you more than any girl I know." Grace looked at her guest in uncomprehending wonder.
"I think I have," he replied, slowly flicking the ashes that had accumulated upon his cigar. "Good! That means more glory. In this sordid age, and with an uncomprehending public, you've had rare fortune in getting rid of your work, Dick. Your pictures are sellers, I hear. How proud your father would have been!
In the hearing of a wean too." A cough choked him and he stopped. At Gilian, sitting still and seemingly uncomprehending, the Cornal looked as at a stranger. "So it is," said he; "just a wean! I forgot, some way. How old are you sixteen? Nonsense! By the look of you I would say a hundred. Oh, you're an old-farrent one, sitting there with your lugs cocked.
Rolleston longed to rouse her in any way. "Forgive me, Cecil," she cried; "you do care for poor Bertie, I see." She looked up with a vague, uncomprehending glance. "Who was so brilliant who so brave with that sympathetic voice, and warm, endearing manner? He was wicked, I dare say! he was not cold enough for a saint." Mrs. Rolleston listened painfully. "How every one adored him!" pursued Cecil.
But his head had begun to roll heavily from side to side, and they could not disguise from themselves that he looked at them with uncomprehending eyes, and, left to himself, sank immediately into stupor that simulated slumber. "Fellows," said old Clenk drearily, "I believe this leetle chap be agoin' ter make a die of it!"
Well, what did you think of it, Dolly?" "If you say so, I'll tell the rest, and see what they think of it." "All right, go ahead! Spare my blushes, good people, but I am fearfully embarrassed!" Everybody looked uncomprehending, and Dolly began. She couldn't see how Alicia could treat the matter so lightly, but was fervently thankful that she did so.
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