And I think from Faith 's story that they all would be the better for something to eat , or we shall have more faintings . '' `` I suppose we should n't have made Una fast , '' said Faith remorsefully . `` When I think of it , only Jerry and I should have been punished . WE got up the concert and we were the oldest . '' `` I sang Polly Wolly just the same as the rest of you , '' said Una 's weak little voice , `` so I had to be punished , too . '' Mrs. Clow came with a glass of milk , Faith and Jerry and Carl sneaked off to the pantry , and John Meredith went into his study , where he sat in the darkness for a long time , alone with his bitter thoughts . So his children were bringing themselves up because there was `` nobody to do it '' -- struggling along amid their little perplexities without a hand to guide or a voice to counsel . Faith 's innocently uttered phrase rankled in her father 's mind like a barbed shaft . There was `` nobody '' to look after them -- to comfort their little souls and care for their little bodies . How frail Una had looked , lying there on the vestry sofa in that long faint ! How thin were her tiny hands , how pallid her little face ! She looked as if she might slip away from him in a breath -- sweet little Una , of whom Cecilia had begged him to take such special care . Since his wife 's death he had not felt such an agony of dread as when he had hung over his little girl in her unconsciousness . He must do something -- but what ? Should he ask Elizabeth Kirk to marry him ? She was a good woman -- she would be kind to his children . He might bring himself to do it if it were not for his love for Rosemary West . But until he had crushed that out he could not seek another woman in marriage . And he could not crush it out -- he had tried and he could not . Rosemary had been in church that evening , for the first time since her return from Kingsport .
He had caught a glimpse XXXXX her face in the back of the crowded church , just as he had finished his sermon .
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