Jem had discovered with angry amazement that nobody had ever bothered to teach Dill how to swim, a skill Jem considered necessary as walking.
They had spent two afternoons at the creek, they said they were going in naked and I couldn’t come,
so I divided the lonely hours between Calpurnia and Miss Maudie. Today Aunt Alexandra and her missionary circle were fighting the good fight.
From the kitchen, I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather giving a report in the livingroom on the squalid lives of the Mrunas, it sounded like to me.
They put the women out in huts when their time came, whatever that was; they had no sense of family—
I knew that’d distress Aunty—they subjected children to terrible ordeals when they were thirteen;
they were crawling with yaws and earworms, they chewed up and spat out the bark of a tree into a communal pot and then got drunk on it.
Immediately thereafter, the ladies adjourned for refreshments. I didn’t know whether to go into the diningroom or stay out.
Aunt Alexandra told me to join them for refreshments; it was not necessary that I attend the business part of the meeting, she said it’d bore me.
I was wearing my pink Sunday dress, shoes, and a petticoat, and reflected that if I spilled anything
Calpurnia would have to wash my dress again for tomorrow. This had been a busy day for her. I decided to stay out.
“Can I help you, Cal?” I asked, wishing to be of some service. Calpurnia paused in the doorway.
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