She Was a Lost Cause, All Right

Hubert thought that Rose was of no importance, but he knew she was better than a good many people. He pitied her because in her own way she did her best, and nobody cared anything at all about her. It would be terrible for Rose if the rest of the world knew what he knew about her. She had turned tame when her father died. As she might have turned traitor to a call, she had once been ready to give her life for. After he was dead, when she set about remembering him, she found that she had memorized him. When she remembered him, trying to remember his voice, she looked more than ever like a bird that has found its feet