Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller

Author:Sarah Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The little house is a genuine bit of paradise.

—ANNE SULLIVAN TO SOPHIA HOPKINS, MARCH 1887

Helen holds out until just after noon.

Percy comes in with the dinner tray and stands in the doorway, befuddled by Helen, lying still on the floor amid her dress and stockings. “Walk right by her,” I tell him, “and put it on the windowsill.” When the smell of the hot food passes over her, Helen gives a little snuffle. Percy glances at me, his eyebrows raised. I shake my head and beckon him to the window. The minutes tick past without so much as a tremble from her. And then the slightest puff of a sigh stirs the tangled hair across her forehead, and I see her fingers creep across the floorboards toward a stocking. If I’d blinked, I would have missed it.

I feel a shift inside me as a smile breaks my face. “Take that cold dish of breakfast away please, Percy. It looks like Helen is ready for dinner.”

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