Her hunger fled; the deathly sickness surged up again.

She trembled, grew ghastly in the yellow lamplight.

Her hands clutched each other in her lap.
"Why, Susie!" cried her aunt.

"Whatever is the matter of you!" The girl lifted her eyes to her aunt's face the eyes of a wounded, suffering, horribly suffering animal.

She rose, rushed out of the door into the yard, flung herself down on the grass.