I said I had seen dozens of babies every bit as bald as Jims, and Irene said, Oh very well, she hadn't meant to offend me--when I wasn't offended.
"It went on like that the rest of the hour--Irene kept giving me little digs all the time.

The girls have always said she was revengeful like that if she were peeved about anything; but I never believed it before; I used to think Irene just perfect, and it hurt me dreadfully to find she could stoop to this.

But I corked up my feelings and sewed away for dear life on a Belgian child's nightgown.
"Then Irene told me the meanest, most contemptible thing that someone had said about Walter.

I won't write it down--I can't.

Of course, she said it made her furious to hear it and all that--but there was no need for her to tell me such a thing even if she did hear it.