It isn't as if he were stricken with typhoid or pneumonia or something like that.

You will certainly be compromised." "Compromised." Ruth repeated the word, not in the effect of a query, but ruminantly.

"Mutual concessions," she added.

"I don't quite understand the application." Sister Prudence looked at Sister Angelina, who understood what was expected of her.

Sister Angelina shook her head as if to say that such ignorance was beyond her.
"Why, it means that people will think evilly of you." "For a bit of kindness ?" Ruth was plainly bewildered.
"You poor child!" Prudence took Ruth's hands in her own.