I 'm sure she is n't , though she never complains . She has n't seemed like herself this long while , ma'am ... not since that day you and Paul were here together before . I feel sure she caught cold that night , ma'am . After you and him had gone she went out and walked in the garden for long after dark with nothing but a little shawl on her . There was a lot of snow on the walks and I feel sure she got a chill , ma'am . Ever since then I 've noticed her acting tired and lonesome like . She do n't seem to take an interest in anything , ma'am . She never pretends company 's coming , nor fixes up for it , nor nothing , ma'am . It 's only when you come she seems to chirk up a bit . And the worst sign of all , Miss Shirley , ma'am ... '' Charlotta the Fourth lowered her voice as if she were about to tell some exceedingly weird and awful symptom indeed ... `` is that she never gets cross now when I breaks things . Why , Miss Shirley , ma'am , yesterday I bruk her green and yaller bowl that 's always stood on the bookcase . Her grandmother brought it out from England and Miss Lavendar was awful choice of it . I was dusting it just as careful , Miss Shirley , ma'am , and it slipped out , so fashion , afore I could grab holt of it , and bruk into about forty millyun pieces . I tell you I was sorry and scared . I thought Miss Lavendar would scold me awful , ma'am ; and I 'd ruther she had than take it the way she did . She just come in and hardly looked at it and said , ` It 's no matter , Charlotta . Take up the pieces and throw them away . ' Just like that , Miss Shirley , ma'am ... ` take up the pieces and throw them away , ' as if it was n't her grandmother 's bowl from England . Oh , she is n't well and I feel awful bad about it . She 's got nobody to look after her but me . ''
XXXXX the Fourth 's eyes brimmed up with tears .
Charlotta England Lavendar Paul Shirley bruk day holt night yaller