It wouldn't have done her any harm to help me THAT little! She treated me as if I'd been dirt that she wouldn't even take the trouble to sweep out of her house! Let her WAIT!" Sibyl's voice, hoarse from babbling, became no more than a husky whisper, though she strove to make it louder.

She struggled half upright, and the nurse restrained her.

"I'd get up out of this bed to show her she can't do such things to me! I was absolutely ladylike, and she walked out and left me there alone! She'll SEE! She started after Bibbs before Jim's casket was fairly underground, and she thinks she's landed that poor loon--but she'll see! She'll see! If I'm ever able to walk across the street again I'll show her how to treat a woman in trouble that comes to her for help! It wouldn't have hurt her any--it wouldn't--it wouldn't.

And Edith needn't have told what she told Roscoe--it wouldn't have hurt her to let me alone.

And HE told her I bored him--telephoning him I wanted to see him.