“Listen!” she whispered.
“I have been down to Doctor, and his new nurse
Knows—I can’t guess how—knows everything.
A beautiful, tall woman, and her friend
The teacher—she is like her. Colder, though,
With different, with grey eyes. The new nurse says—”
“What, Dora, what does she say?”
“Oh, no, I can’t—
I’ll never, never tell you.”
As she ran