But going back to what my 'war of dissatisfaction' is doing to me, it's a pale affair compared with what it is doing to you, Eileen.

You look a debilitated silhouette of the near recent past.

Do you feel that badly about giving up a little money and authority ?" "I never professed to have the slightest authority over you," said Eileen very primly, as she drew back in the shadows.

"You have come and gone exactly as you pleased.

All I ever tried to do was to keep up a decent appearance before the neighbors and make financial ends meet." "That never seemed to wear on you as something seems to do now," said Linda.