22/24 "Ruby is the first of our schoolmates to go. One by one, sooner or later, all the rest of us must follow." "Yes, I suppose so," said Diana uncomfortably. She did not want to talk of that. She would have preferred to have discussed the details of the funeral--the splendid white velvet casket Mr.Gillis had insisted on having for Ruby--"the Gillises must always make a splurge, even at funerals," quoth Mrs.Rachel Lynde--Herb Spencer's sad face, the uncontrolled, hysteric grief of one of Ruby's sisters--but Anne would not talk of these things. She seemed wrapped in a reverie in which Diana felt lonesomely that she had neither lot nor part. |