“Yes, you did.”
“Well, I didn’t win it, did I?”
“No.”
“Then that’s all there is about it, I think.”
“And you’re not going to ask your father—”
“I’m not going to ask my father anything. You haven’t done what you said you would, for me, and I’m not bound to do anything for you!”
“All right, Bernice, good-bye,” and Dolly got up and left the room and went out of the house.
She was so blinded by her irrepressible tears, that she didn’t notice that Dotty wasn’t with her. She stumbled home, and going to her room, she flung herself on her bed and had her cry out.
Then she got up, bathed her eyes, and sat down to think it over. But there seemed to be nothing more to think of. She had tried her best and had failed. There was no other way to try, and no hope for remaining in Berwick now. To be sure she had said she would appeal to Mr. Forbes for her father’s retention in his present position, but that plan didn’t seem right, and she abandoned it.