“’Tisn’t anything really, Father, only I feel so miserable and the boys have been making fun of me.”
“Making fun, what about?”
“Oh, just because.”
“Because what, out with it!”
“Because I ate green cherries, I suppose.”
73“How long have you been eating green cherries, Jane?”
Jane considered. “Most a week.”
“And don’t you think you deserve to be laughed at, for doing anything so foolish?”
“They didn’t laugh at the monks–and they were grown-up men.”
“Monks? What do you mean?”