"Clam!" — said her mistress facing about.
"Well, Miss Lizzie —"
"Go and take care of Karen. I don't want you."
"She don't want me," said Clam. "And you've had no dinner."
"Do as I tell you. I shall not have any."
With this spur, Elizabeth was soon dressed, and then walked into Mrs. Haye's room. Rose apparently had had leisure for meditation and had made up her mind upon several things; but her brow changed as her cousin came in.
"Lizzie — Why you've been up all night, Emma says."
"That's nothing. I have been down all day."
"But what's the matter with this old woman?"
"I don't know. She don't know herself."