Maria laughed. “Well, dear, we can't help it,” she said.
“If this world is for people, and not the people for this world, it seems to me we ought to be able to help a little,” said Evelyn with perfectly unconscious heresy. “There it rained too much last week, and this week it is too hot, and the apple blossoms have come too soon after the cherry blossoms. It is like eating all your candy in one big pill.”
Maria laughed again, but Evelyn sighed wearily. The car was very hot and close.
“I shall be thankful when we get home,” Evelyn said.
“Yes, you will feel better when you get home and have some supper,” said Maria.
“I don't want any supper,” said Evelyn.
“If you don't eat any supper you cannot study this evening.”
“I must study,” said Evelyn with a feverish light in her eyes.
“You can't unless you eat.”
“Well, I will drink some milk,” said Evelyn. She was studying very hard. She was very ambitious, both naturally and because of her feeling for Wollaston Lee. It seemed to her that she should die if she did not stand well in her class. Evelyn had received so little notice from Wollaston that she had made up her mind that he did not care for her, and the conviction was breaking her heart, but she said to herself that she would graduate with honors that she might have that much, that she must.