“Shame is an evidence of something; go on.”
“I am ashamed that I am such a dreamer.”
“Philip says that you are a dreamer.”
“I care for my writing.”
“Mowers work while they whet their scythes,” quoted Miss Sarepta.
XXV.—BLUE MYRTLE.
In March, Tessa found myrtle in bloom, and took a handful of the blue blossoms mingled with sprays of the green leaves to Miss Sarepta.
“Spring has come,” she said dropping them on the open book in Miss Sarepta’s lap.
“If spring has come, then I must lose you.”
“Every hand that I know in Dunellen is beckoning me homewards; my winter’s work is done.”