"I don't want to talk to you any more."
This seemed to exasperate Fanny, who, overcome by her feelings, flew at Rose, and scratched her in the face. Rose was very peaceably inclined, but she did not care about submitting to such treatment. She therefore seized Fanny by the hands and held them. Unable to get away, Fanny screamed at the top of her voice. This brought her mother to the door.
"What's going on here?" she asked, in a voice of authority.
"She's fighting me," said Fanny. "Take her away."
"Let go my child at once, you wicked girl!" said Mrs. Waters, whose sympathies were at once enlisted on the side of her child.
"Then she mustn't scratch me," said Rose.
"What did you scratch her for, Fanny?"
"She's been plaguing me."
"How did she plague you?"
"I was playing with puss, and she came and took the cat away, and pushed me."