Nascent Drama

[The Dork Lord]

"Well, you've done enough.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Here I go over to Sereny Harper, like an old softy, expecting I'm going to make her believe all that rubbage about that dream, when lo and behold you she'd found out from Joe that you was over here and heard all the talk we had that night.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Tom, I don't know what is to become of a boy that will act like that.

 

[The Dork Lord]

It makes me feel so bad to think you could let me go to Sereny Harper and make such a fool of myself and never say a word."

 

[The Dork Lord]

This was a new aspect of the thing.

 

[The Dork Lord]

His smartness of the morning had seemed to Tom a good joke before, and very ingenious.

 

[The Dork Lord]

It merely looked mean and shabby now.

 

[The Dork Lord]

He hung his head and could not think of anything to say for a moment.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Then he said:

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Auntie, I wish I hadn't done it -- but I didn't think."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Oh, child, you never think.

 

[The Dork Lord]

You never think of anything but your own selfishness.

 

[The Dork Lord]

You could think to come all the way over here from Jackson's Island in the night to laugh at our troubles, and you could think to fool me with a lie about a dream; but you couldn't ever think to pity us and save us from sorrow."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Auntie, I know now it was mean, but I didn't mean to be mean.

 

[The Dork Lord]

I didn't, honest.

 

[The Dork Lord]

And besides, I didn't come over here to laugh at you that night."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"What did you come for, then?"

 

[The Dork Lord]

"It was to tell you not to be uneasy about us, because we hadn't got drownded."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Tom, Tom, I would be the thankfullest soul in this world if I could believe you ever had as good a thought as that, but you know you never did -- and I know it, Tom."

 

[The Dork Lord]

"Indeed and 'deed I did, auntie -- I wish I may never stir if I didn't."