“Beast!” she cried. “I’d like to shake him!”
But the idea of her shaking Mr. Morgan made her laugh. She dried her tears, ashamed of her temper, and when Nina got back, she was her usual good-natured, delightful self again. She did not mention the episode to Nina; it would only distress her.
“And I think I’m capable of managing Mr. Morgan!” she told herself, grimly.
IV
Nina was surprised by her sister’s censorious attitude.
“But they do try to be neighborly!” she protested.
“I don’t care!” said Rose, with unwonted heat. “I don’t like them, and I don’t want anything to do with them. They’re a family of—savages!”
“Oh, Rose! When that poor little Margie brings us flowers from her own garden every day!”
“Yes, because that Bill told her to!” thought Rose. But aloud she said: “Brings them! She pretty nearly throws them at us.”
“That’s just her way.”