I felt his hand on the back of my head. “Don’t you worry about anything,” he said.
“It’s not time to worry.” When I heard that, I knew he had come back to us.
The blood in my legs began to flow again, and I raised my head.
“You really want us to do all that? I can’t remember everything Finches are supposed to do…”
“I don’t want you to remember it. Forget it.” He went to the door and out of the room, shutting the door behind him.
He nearly slammed it, but caught himself at the last minute and closed it softly.
As Jem and I stared, the door opened again and Atticus peered around.
His eyebrows were raised, his glasses had slipped.
Get more like Cousin Joshua every day, don’t I? Do you think I’ll end up costing the family five hundred dollars?
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
Chapter 14
Although we heard no more about the Finch family from Aunt Alexandra, we heard plenty from the town.
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