Chapter XVII

A Tantrum

She had got up very early in the morning and
had worked hard in the garden and she was
tired and sleepy, so as soon as Martha had brought
her supper and she had eaten it, she was glad to
go to bed. As she laid her head on the pillow
she murmured to herself:

"I'll go out before breakfast and work with
Dickon and then afterward -- I believe -- I'll go
to see him."

She thought it was the middle of the night when
she was wakened by such dreadful sounds that
she jumped out of bed in an instant. What was
it -- what was it? The next minute she felt quite
sure she knew. Doors were opened and shut and
there were hurrying feet in the corridors and some
one was crying and screaming at the same time,
screaming and crying in a horrible way.

"It's Colin," she said. "He's having one of
those tantrums the nurse called hysterics. How
awful it sounds."

As she listened to the sobbing screams she did

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