“Soon as I’m off duty,” he replied. “No use in hanging around here any longer. The boy’s perfectly well, you know.”
He whistled as he went down the hall towards Timmy’s room.
“We certainly have done that man an injustice,” Helen said, watching him go. “I feel like a heel, but I don’t know how to tell him so.”
Jean shook her head. “We don’t have to. I think he’ll get to like us better from now on.”
14. Mercyville
“Now, the first thing we have to do, Tim,” Dr. Benson said to the boy as they picked up the odds and ends Timmy had collected during his stay, “is to get you an outfit.”
Large blue eyes stared up at him. “A what?” he asked.
“Clothes! You know, a suit, underwear ... the works!”
Timmy whistled. “You mean, jest fer me?”