"Mother, you can't make me believe that." "It's true, whether you believe it or not.

I don't know anything about law, but I'm sure enough of that." Lois stood looking at her mother.

"Then I'll put you there," said she, in a cruel voice.

"That's where you ought to go, mother." She went out of the room, and shut the door hard behind her; then she kept on through the house to the front porch, and sat down.

She sat there all the morning, huddled up against a pillar.