"Nor I," said Aunt Mena.
Sarah's eyes continued to flash, but she said nothing. She knew that they were expressing their scorn for her father's judgment, but she was too tired to answer. If they would only go home! She saw her uncle look at little Albert. He need not think she would give him up. Sarah almost laughed at the idea. Then she heard that her uncle had begun to speak again.
"Well, now I have another offer to make. Mena will take Ellie and Weezy. I will take Albert. He shall be Albert Swartz from now on. And Sarah can come also to us to help to work."
"You will have to be a good little girl and work right," admonished Aunt 'Liza.
"And you will have a good home," put in Jacob Kalb. "You and the zwillings (twins)." There were times when Jacob's English vocabulary was not equal to the demands upon it.
Sarah's pale cheeks grew a little whiter. But Uncle Daniel had said it was an offer. An offer could be declined.
"But we are all going to stay here together like always," she said. "I and Albert and the twins."
She saw their anger in their faces.
"What!" said Aunt Eliza.