The Children's Hour Page #3
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- 1961
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coming back to life.
Her roommates were busily
eavesdropping at the door
when Aunt Lily and I were
yelling at each other.
Karen...
those girls from Mary.
Yes. She's a bad influence.
- I have a class waiting. They're outside.
- I'll take care of it.
All right, girls,
you may go in now.
How does it feel to be
back from the grave?
- Did you meet any interesting people?
- It's my heart, and it hurts.
You like that story, don't you?
- I want to see my grandmother.
- We're awfully sorry, Miss Wright.
I'm sorry, too. You never
used to do things like that.
have to separate you girls.
Peggy, move into
Helen Burton's room,
and Mary, change rooms
with Rosalie Wells.
- Miss Wright.
- And it's just because I had a pain.
You're always being mean to me.
I'm always getting
punished, picked on,
blamed for everything
that happens around here!
Tell Rosalie.
Help!
Are you leaving?
Not until I get paid.
- Good-bye, teacher.
- Good-bye, Doctor.
Now, go on. Why did Dobie
want to get rid of Mortar?
Dr. Cardin and Miss Wright
are going to get married.
- Everybody knows that. Stupid!
- But everybody doesn't know
that Miss Dobie doesn't
want them to get married.
- How do you like that?
- Why doesn't she?
I don't know, but Mortar
said that Dobie was jealous
and that she was like that
when she was a little girl
to like Miss Wright
and that was unnatural.
Boy, did Dobie get sore at that.
What did she mean by unnatural?
"Unnatural."
"Un" for "not." Not natural.
Then genius here dropped her book.
- What are you doing?
- My bracelet.
I still can't find it.
I don't like that Mary
Tilford coming in here.
- Come here, Sylvester. We're moving.
- Peggy says she blows her nose all night.
- I need $2.
- I don't have it.
You have $2.75. Get it for me.
No, I won't get it for you.
Get it for me.
- I won't!
- Get it for me!
- Let go of my hand!
- Get it for me!
Girls!
What are you making
all this fuss about?
I shall get one of my headaches.
I'm very upset today, with
all my packing and moving
and I cannot stand this noise.
Isn't that Helen Burton's
bracelet, the one that was lost?
I...
No, ma'am.
It's Rosalie's bracelet.
You dropped it.
In my day, children were
seen and not heard.
Try and be ladies.
Rosalie!
Now will you get me the money?
Keep the change.
I'm sorry, grandma.
I didn't mean to
hurt your feelings.
Forgive me?
What made you act that
way, run away like that?
I told you.
- I'm scared of them.
- Nonsense!
- They've got something against me.
- I don't believe that.
They're always punishing me for
anything they can think of.
You imagine it.
Miss Wright and Miss Dobie
are nice young women
and good teachers.
You don't know anything
about them. I do.
I know lots of things.
Like what happened yesterday.
What happened yesterday?
- I can't tell you.
- Why?
- Because you're going to take their part.
- Very well, then.
It was all about Miss
Dobie and Mrs. Mortar.
They were having a terrible argument,
and Peggy and Evelyn heard them
and Miss Dobie found out.
That's why they're making
us change our rooms.
What's wrong with that?
They don't like to have us near them.
They've got secrets or something.
people having secrets.
Peggy and Evelyn heard Mrs. Mortar
say that she knew what was going on.
And they were talking
about all sorts of things
about Miss Wright and
cousin Joe getting married
and how Miss Dobie was jealous.
And boy, did Dobie
get sore at that.
I don't wish to hear anymore
of this ugly gossip.
Besides, I don't believe this talk of
jealousy between Miss Dobie and Miss Wright.
But I didn't say she was
jealous of Miss Wright.
I said that Mrs. Mortar said
that Miss Dobie was
jealous of cousin Joe.
I don't understand.
Neither do I.
But Mrs. Mortar said
that it was unnatural
for a woman to feel that way.
I'm just telling you what she said.
Mrs. Mortar said that
Miss Dobie was like that
even when she was a little
girl, that it was unnatural.
That's the word she used.
Then they got mad at each other
and Miss Dobie told Mrs. Mortar
to get out of the house.
- That probably wasn't the reason at all.
- I bet it was.
Because, honestly, Miss Dobie
does get mean and cranky
every time cousin Joe comes.
say to him, "Damn you."
You've picked up some very
fine words, haven't you?
But that's just the word she used.
One time, Miss Dobie
was in her room late.
It's right near ours.
And Miss Wright goes in
there almost every night
and stays late.
That's why they want to get
rid of us. Of me, I mean.
Because we hear things.
That's why they're making
us move our rooms.
Plenty of other things.
Strange, funny noises.
- And we've seen things, too.
- What things?
- Bad things. I can't tell you.
- You're annoying me very much.
If you have anything
to say, say it.
I mean, I can't say it out loud.
I've got to whisper it.
- Why must you whisper it?
- I don't know. I've just got to.
Mary, do you know
what you're saying?
Stop the car, John.
Stop the car, John!
Just a moment.
It's true.
You wait right here.
MY goodness!
Good morning, Mrs. Tilford.
I've come here to see Miss
Wright or Miss Dobie.
They're in class. I never carried
a suitcase before in my life.
Oh, dear.
I'll wait.
these things into this bag.
My theater maid usually
does the packing for me.
What must I look like?
I gave up a very important role in
Morning Sunshine just to teach here.
And now my niece has dismissed me.
Dismissed, after a year
of backbreaking work.
I sacrificed my youth for her
but I'm sure you
know all about that,
and ingratitude,
and the sting of the wasp.
Do you suppose I could get one of
those coats in that other bag?
Mrs. Mortar...
I've been told you used a strange
word in connection with your niece.
I've heard that you feel
there's something unnatural...
Something unnatural? Why, the
whole thing's unnatural.
You would think that a healthy
woman her age would have a husband
or at least an admirer but she
hasn't, and she never has had.
Young men who liked her,
yes, but not for long,
because she has no interest
in them, only the school
and Karen Wright.
Mrs. Tilford, at 28, do you spend your
life with other people's children
no new clothes, working every
night, nothing to look forward to
but a summer vacation
with Karen Wright?
And now that Karen's getting married,
Martha's in a frenzy of bad temper
and she's taking it out on me.
Friendship between women, yes.
Nobody's had more friends than I.
But not this insane devotion.
I'm forgetting
something, my umbrella.
I left it in the closet.
Perhaps it's all for the best.
It was bound to happen
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