Again silence and then Margot said, "I think your aunt would let you play if you would ask her to."
"No," Jeanne replied, "I would not ask her. I must show the clothes. She could not sell them if I did not show them first."
There was a short silence and then again came Jeanne's voice, "I just want to be a little girl. I want to play!" The last word ended in a sob.
For the next few moments Auntie Sue did not hear anything. Indeed she hardly knew anything, so stunned and shocked was she.
Auntie Sue did not know how it was that she ever opened the door. She did not know how she ever came to leave that apartment.
It was fortunate that Madame Villard and Margot's mother were out. Children do not always notice things the way grown people do.
But Margot wondered, after Jeanne and her aunt had left, why Auntie Sue's eyes had been so big and frightened and why she had hardly said good-bye.