Every few
seconds she would look over at Sahwah and pronounce the word
"baby" in a taunting tone.

Sahwah closed her eyes resolutely and pretended not to hear her.
She was filled from head to foot with contempt for Gladys.
Sahwah was heedless and hot-tempered and undiplomatic, but in
matters where honor was concerned she was true blue. All her
admiration for Gladys vanished when she tried to lead her into
dishonor. As she lay there thinking over her attempts to win
Gladys's friendship she saw clearly how Gladys had been working
her all this time, getting her to wait on her hand and foot and
in return treating her in a patronizing manner as if she were an
inferior being from whom such service was no more than due. Her
rage rose at the very thought of Gladys. "Catch me doing
anything for her again!" she muttered to herself.

She lay very still with her eyes closed for a long time, feigning
sleep. After a while a stealthy rustle from Gladys's bed caught
her ear. She opened one eye slightly and then opened both very
wide in surprise. Gladys was in the act of drawing a box of
candy from under her blankets. Opening it, she proceeded to eat
one piece after another. Sahwah was so astonished that she could
not repress an exclamation.

Gladys looked in her direction. "Have a piece of candy?" she
said mockingly, holding out the box, "or are you afraid to do
that too?"

Sahwah disregarded the taunt. "Where did you get that candy?"
she asked sternly.

"I bought it down in the village, Miss Simplicity," answered
Gladys.

"Did you know that we weren't to buy candy and eat it between
meals, or didn't you?" continued Sahwah.

"Certainly, I knew it was against the rules," said Gladys, "but I
don't intend to have any one dictate to me whether or not I shall
eat candy. I've eaten candy all my life and it's never hurt me.
If I can't eat it openly I'll eat it on the sly, but I will eat
it!"

"Didn't it occur to you that it's dishonest to do things on the
sly like that?" said Sahwah in a husky voice. If she had held
Gladys in contempt before there was no name for what she thought
of her now.

"Who says it's dishonest to break silly rules?" said Gladys,
putting another piece into her mouth. "Such rules were made to
be broken."

"What would Nyoda say?" asked Sahwah.

"I don't care what she says," said Gladys recklessly.

"I thought you admired her so much," said Sahwah, remembering how
Gladys was constantly fa