"Goodness gracious!" gasped Peace. "No wonder he won't build any more hospital."
"It is such a pity to act so childish about it."
"I s'pose it does seem so to everyone else, but just s'posing you had got settled comfortable on a boiling hot night, and someone spilled water all over you. How would you like it?"
"But it was purely an accident, Peace."
"Accidents don't always make a fellow feel nice," the child asserted. "And the committee oughtn't to have visited him just after he got half drowned. They might have known he'd be ugly."
"They knew nothing whatever of the accident until he told them. It seems that even Miss Gee herself did not realize that anything but the cats had been soaked, He was so angry that he refused to stay here any longer, and as soon as he could get his clothes on, the ambulance took him home. It is such a shame, for the hospital does need more room so badly, and now—"
"'F I was the hospital, I'd just show him that I could build all the rooms I wanted to without any of his old money."
"O, they intend to try to raise seventy-five thousand dollars by subscriptions from the churches. That was decided today. But it will be a hard job."
"Who's going to do it?"
"Do what?"