16/19 She's lived a life apart--aloof--looking at great pictures and hearing great music. Of course, she's a little shy with us--she doesn't understand our roistering ways--that's part of her being Ann." But when she came back after getting her own things, Ann had gone. The girl in white was still sitting there in the chair, but she was not at all Ann. Things not from Florence, other things than dreams and visions and great pictures and music had taken hold of her. Frightened and disorganized again, she was huddled in the chair, and as Katie stood in the doorway she said not a word, but shook her head, and the eyes told all. |