14/36 She hasn't any more feeling than a stone wall, nor half as much, I say!" "Hush, Gypsy! Don't say that. Indeed I'd rather have the pain, and help her a little, once in a while, when my best days come and I can; I had, really, Gypsy. You don't know how it hurts me--a great deal more than this other hurt in my back--to lie here and let her support me, and I not do a thing. O Gypsy, you don't know!" Something in Peace Maythorne's tone just then made Gypsy feel worse than she felt to see her sew. She was silent a minute, turning away her face. |