Ye
couldn't jist honest say she had ever had a FAIR chance, now
could ye?"
"No," said Linda conclusively' "no, Katherine O'Donovan, you
could not. But what are we up against? Does she want to come
back? Does she want to stay here again?"
"I think she would like to," said Katy. "You go in and see her
for yourself, lambie, before ye come to any decision."
"You don't mean," said Linda in a marveling tone, "that she has
been homesick, that she has come back to us because she would
like to be with us again?"
"You go and see her for yourself; and if you don't say she is the
worst beat out and the tiredest mortal that ye have ever seen
you'll be surprisin' me. My God, Linda, they ain't nothin' in
bein' rich if it can do to a girl what has been done to Eileen!"
"Oh, well," said Linda impatiently, "don't condemn all money
because Eileen has not found happiness with it. The trouble has
been that Eileen's only chance to be rich came to her through the
wrong kind of people."
"Well, will ye jist tell me, then," said Katy, "how it happened
that Eileen's ma was a sister to that great beef of a man, which
same is hard on self-rayspectin' beef; pork would come nearer."
"Yes," said Linda, "I'll tell you. Eileen's mother had a big
streak of the same coarseness and the same vulgarity in HER
nature, or she could not have reared Eileen as she did. She
probably had been sent to school and had better advantages than
the boy through a designing mother of her own.
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