"Oh no, I'm just leaving."
There are more diplomatic exchanges but when they have ended Oliver goes
back to Copy, remarks "Quitting Saturday, Mrs. Wimple," gets his hat and
goes off a quarter of an hour earlier than he ever has before, leaving the
rest of Copy to match pennies and opinions till closing time on the
question as to whether he fired himself or was fired.
XXIV
Jane Ellen swayed back and forth in the porch hammock, hugging herself
with fat arms. All her dolls lay spread out wretchedly on the floor
beneath her, she had stripped them of every rag and they had the dejected
appearance of victims ready for sacrifice to Baal. "The Choolies are mad!"
she sang to herself, "The Choolies are mad!"
It had been a perfectly sensible idea to try and water the flowers on the
parlor carpet with her doll's watering pot--those flowers hadn't had any
water for an awful long time. But Mother had punished her in the Third
Degree which was by hairbrush and Aunt Elsie had taken the watering-pot
away and Rosalind and Dickie had put on such offensively virtuous
expressions as soon as they heard her being punished that she was mad at
them all.
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