You hear me? Don’t you ever say one word to me about it again, you hear? Now go on!
I was too surprised to cry. I crept from Jem’s room and shut the door softly, lest undue noise set him off again.
Suddenly tired, I wanted Atticus. He was in the livingroom, and I went to him and tried to get in his lap.
Atticus smiled. “You’re getting so big now, I’ll just have to hold a part of you.”
He held me close. “Scout,” he said softly, “don’t let Jem get you down. He’s having a rough time these days.
I heard you back there.” Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something,
but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed.
Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
Chapter 27
Things did settle down, after a fashion, as Atticus said they would.
By the middle of October, only two small things out of the ordinary happened to two Maycomb citizens.
No, there were three things, and they did not directly concern us—the Finches—but in a way they did.
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