"I do not know what you mean!"
"Even Mr. Utterly saw that Eleanor Bent has eyes like Basil and he never saw her but once or twice. You can't fail to see it! And there is this writing!"
Thomasina always sat quietly, but now she seemed to have turned to stone. After a long time Mary Alcestis took her hands from her eyes and looked up.
"You look at me as though I were a fool and wicked, too, Thomasina."
Thomasina made no answer, but continued to stare with a face as white as Mrs. Lister's sheets. Mrs. Lister sat up suddenly in bed.
"I hear some one downstairs, I believe it is Dr. Lister. Will you tell him, Thomasina, that I am trying to sleep?"
Thomasina rose quickly.
"You are a fool, Mary Alcestis," said she slowly.
"Oh, Thomasina!" Mary Alcestis laid herself down.