"I think you must have been quite a different sort of girl from us," said Winnie. "We never thought about helping people, and that kind of thing."
CHAPTER IX.
Nessa next morning expressed her wish to go and see Mrs. Daly again, and Rosie again volunteered to accompany her.
"What's the use of my going to the island?" she said in answer to the other children's reproaches afterwards. "I can't do Theresa a bit of good, and I hate going there. It makes me miserable. Soon the police'll find out all about it; and we'll just be put in prison."
She went away as she spoke; she didn't want to talk about the affair. She would like to have forgotten it if she could, and she kept close to Nessa all day in order to prevent the others from having an opportunity of reminding her of it.
Her gloomy view depressed the other children not a little, and Rosie's conviction that the police would interfere before long affected them in spite of themselves.
Winnie said, "She didn't believe ladies and gentlemen were ever put in prison, but she was not at all sure."
"Isn't it dreadful?" she said, "waking up in the morning and thinking of it first thing."
"Yes," said Murtagh; "and all day long, too; I can't manage to forget it at all, but we've just got to hold on. We must be able to see old Plunkett soon now, and as for feeding her, we can always manage that somehow. It's no use thinking about the police. If they're going to come, why, they'll have to come, that's all."