The Three Sisters
May Sinclair
The Three Sisters V
Their stillness, their immobility were now intense. And not one spoke a word to the other.
All three of them were thinking.
Mary thought, "Wednesday is his day. On Wednesday I will go into the village and see all my sick people. Then I shall see him. And he will see me. He will see that I am kind and sweet and womanly." She thought, "That is the sort of woman that a man wants." But she did not know what she was thinking.
Alice thought, "I will make myself ill. So ill that they'll _have_ to send for him. I shall see him that way."
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