“Of course,” she cried, “you would take her side against mine.”
“It isn’t a question of sides. You couldn’t expect her to let you go on running her house forever.”
“A shiftless little fool like that! I wouldn’t have minded if she’d only said ‘Thank you.’ Not a word did she say, but just flung you in my face. And now you say she’s right! I wish you’d never come, I do.”
“Ann, dear, don’t be silly.”
“I do wish it with all my heart and soul. You’ve made me be different. You’ve made me want to do good things, and then you’re nothing but a shadow slipping away. And, oh! it does hurt so.”
“Dear, dear Ann, don’t you see that Rita wanted to get rid of you and didn’t know how to without a quarrel?”
“Why should she want to get rid of me? Nice mess she’d have been in without you and me.”
“You go and see her to-morrow, and you’ll find her all right.”
“I don’t want to see her ever again, nasty ungrateful rubbish!”
“Then I’ll go and see her.”