"My mom was taken that a way," she explained, tearfully. "For seven years she laid and didn't speak and toward the end she hadn't her mind any more. Who will take care of gran'mom? Will Edwin and Sally move home or will they get some one from outside?"
Bevy stood beside the sink, her arms akimbo.
"Gran'mom isn't sure to lie seven years," said she. Bevy had in her possession the seventh book of Moses, which contained many powerful prescriptions; she meant to see what pow-wowing could do before she despaired of Grandmother Gaumer. "But if she does lay, Edwin won't come home and they won't get anybody from outside. It was never yet a Gaumer what had to be taken care of by one from outside. Katy will take care of her gran'mom."
"Katy will take care of her gran'mom!" repeated Sarah Ann. "But she won't be well till [by] September! How will Katy then be educated? Carpenter has learned her everything he knows in this world. I could easy hear that!"
"Katy does not think of education," answered Bevy. "She thinks of nothing but her gran'mom. She is with her night and day."
Solemnly Sarah Ann and Bevy regarded one another. Then solemnly they nodded.
"That is what I said to Millerstown!" Thus Sarah Ann in triumph. "There are those in Millerstown who will have it that Katy will let her gran'mom stick. There are those in Millerstown who say that when people get education, they get crazy. Did she cry, Bevy?"
"Not that I saw," answered Bevy, proudly. "Or that any one else saw, I guess."
"I will tell Millerstown," Sarah Ann made ready to depart. "It is three places where I will stop already on my way home."
Ponderously, satisfied with her darling, Sarah Ann moved through the door.