What Katy said was energetic and emphatic, but it comforted Linda, because she agreed with it and what she was seeking at the minute was someone who agreed with her.

As she went back upstairs, she met Eileen on her way to the front door.

Eileen paused and deliberately studied Linda's face, and Linda stopped and waited quietly until she chose to speak.
"I presume," said Eileen at last, "that you and Katy would call the process through which you are going right now, 'taking the bit in your teeth,' or some poetic thing like that, but I can't see that you are getting much out of it.

I don't hear the old laugh or the clatter of gay feet as I did before all this war of dissatisfaction broke out.

This minute if you haven't either cried, or wanted to, I miss my guess." "You win," said Linda.