The Ann in you has had a hard time." She was speaking uncertainly, timidly, as if on ground where words had broken no paths.

"Oh, I'm not so much the outsider I can't see that.

But the Ann in you has never died.

That I see, too.
Maybe it was to save Ann you were going to--give up Verna.

And because I see Ann--like her--because I called her back, won't you let her stay here and--" Katie's voice broke, so to offset that she cocked her head and made a wry little face as she concluded, not succeeding in concealing the deep tenderness in her eyes, "just try--the eggs ?".